Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kéras/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /céras/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /céɾas/

Noun

κέρας • ‎(kéras) n ‎(genitive κέρατος, κέραος, κέρως); third declension

1. horn (of an animal)
2. horn as a material, or anything made of horn, such as a bow.
3. horn (musical instrument)
4. arm or branch of a river

Inflection

κέρας was sometimes declined as stem κέρατ- and sometimes as stem κέρα-. Both are shown here.

κέρατ-

κέρα- (uncontracted)

References

• κέρας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κέρας in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κέρας in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κέρας» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «κέρας» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κέρας in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2768”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «κέρας» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • antler idem, page 32.
  • arm idem, page 40.
  • bend idem, page 73.
  • branch idem, page 93.
  • bugle idem, page 103.
  • column idem, page 144.
  • flank idem, page 325.
  • fork idem, page 338.
  • horn idem, page 406.
  • reach idem, page 675.
  • wing idem, page 981.

Greek

Noun

κέρας • ‎(kéras) n ‎(plural κέρατα)

1. (anatomy) horn
2. (music) horn (wind instrument)

Declension

Related terms

• κέρατο n ‎(kérato, “horn”)
• κερατίνη f ‎(keratíni, “keratin”)
• κερατάς m ‎(keratás, “cuckold”)

External links

• κέρας on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el