Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /keɸáleon/

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

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

Noun

κεφάλαιον • ‎(kephálaion) n ‎(genitive κεφαλαίου); second declension

1. main point, gist
2. chapter (of a book)

Inflection

Descendants

• Syriac: ܩܦܠܐܘܢ

Etymology 2

Adjective

κεφάλαιον • ‎(kephálaion)

1. masculine accusative singular of κεφάλαιος ‎(kephálaios)
2. neuter nominative singular of κεφάλαιος ‎(kephálaios)
3. neuter accusative singular of κεφάλαιος ‎(kephálaios)
4. neuter vocative singular of κεφάλαιος ‎(kephálaios)

References

• κεφάλαιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «κεφάλαιον» 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
• “G2774”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «κεφάλαιον» 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.
  • abstract idem, page 4.
  • consummation idem, page 166.
  • epitome idem, page 279.
  • gist idem, page 360.
  • head idem, page 389.
  • kernel idem, page 468.
  • substance idem, page 832.
  • sum idem, page 837.
  • summary idem, page 837.
  • synopsis idem, page 851.
  • total idem, page 882.