κάρηνον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κάρανον (káranon)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱŕ̥h₂-es-n-h₂, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, top”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κάρα (kára, “head, face”), Proto-Germanic *hirzniją (“brain”) and Old Armenian սար (sar, “tip, top; mountain”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.rɛː.non/ → /ˈka.ri.non/ → /ˈka.ri.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.rɛː.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.re̝.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ri.non/

Noun

κάρηνον • (kárēnon) n (genitive κάρηνου); second declension

1. head; mountain top (used mostly in the plural form)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κᾰ́ρηνον; τοῦ κᾰρήνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾰ́ρηνον tò kárēnon	τὼ κᾰρήνω tṑ karḗnō	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρηνᾰ tà kárēna
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰρήνου toû karḗnou	τοῖν κᾰρήνοιν toîn karḗnoin	τῶν κᾰρήνων tôn karḗnōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰρήνῳ tôi karḗnōi	τοῖν κᾰρήνοιν toîn karḗnoin	τοῖς κᾰρήνοις toîs karḗnois
Accusative	τὸ κᾰ́ρηνον tò kárēnon	τὼ κᾰρήνω tṑ karḗnō	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́ρηνᾰ tà kárēna
Vocative	κᾰ́ρηνον kárēnon	κᾰρήνω karḗnō	κᾰ́ρηνᾰ kárēna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὑψικάρηνος (hupsikárēnos)

Further reading

• “κάρηνον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάρηνον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN