κάρα

See also: καρά

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n-, from *ḱerh₂-; see there for more.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κᾰ́ρᾱ • (kárā) n (genitive κᾰ́ρᾱτος); third declension

  1. head, face
  2. the head or top of anything, as of a mountain
  3. person

Usage notes

Later authors have dative κάρᾳ (kárāi), accusative κάρᾱν (kárān).

Inflection
Third declension of τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ; τοῦ κᾰ́ρᾱτος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ
tò kárā		 τὼ κᾰ́ρᾱτε
tṑ kárāte		 τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ
tà kárāta
Genitive τοῦ κᾰ́ρᾱτος
toû kárātos		 τοῖν κᾰρᾱ́τοιν
toîn karā́toin		 τῶν κᾰρᾱ́των
tôn karā́tōn
Dative τῷ κᾰ́ρᾱτῐ
tôi kárāti		 τοῖν κᾰρᾱ́τοιν
toîn karā́toin		 τοῖς κᾰ́ρᾱσῐ / κᾰ́ρᾱσῐν
toîs kárāsi(n)
Accusative τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ
tò kárā		 τὼ κᾰ́ρᾱτε
tṑ kárāte		 τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ
tà kárāta
Vocative κᾰ́ρᾱ
kárā		 κᾰ́ρᾱτε
kárāte		 κᾰ́ρᾱτᾰ
kárāta
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Further reading
  • κάρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κάρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • κάρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κάρα 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.
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill
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