Κέρβερος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. Suggested to be cognate with Sanskrit शबल (śabala), कर्बुर (karbura, “speckled, spotted”), but this is phonetically problematic and is rejected by Beekes.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kér.be.ros/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛr.bɛ.ros/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈker.βe.ros/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.ve.ros/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈcer.ve.ros/

Proper noun

Κέρβερος • (Kérberos) m (genitive Κερβέρου); second declension

Cerberus, the three-headed dog which guards the entrance to Hades

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κέρβερος; τοῦ Κερβέρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Κέρβερος ho Kérberos
Genitive	τοῦ Κερβέρου toû Kerbérou
Dative	τῷ Κερβέρῳ tôi Kerbérōi
Accusative	τὸν Κέρβερον tòn Kérberon
Vocative	Κέρβερε Kérbere
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

Κέρβερος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Κέρβερος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,005
Klein
Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World

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