κάδος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰ́δδος (káddos)

Etymology

A vinicultural loan of Semitic origin, compare Hebrew כַּד (kad), Ugaritic 𐎋𐎄 (kd), Imperial Aramaic 𐡊𐡃 (kd), Punic 𐤊𐤃 (kd).^[1] The Semitic word may ultimately trace to Dravidian; see Akkadian 𒃶𒁺 (kandu) for more.^[2]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.dos/ → /ˈka.ðos/ → /ˈka.ðos/

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

Noun

κᾰ́δος • (kádos) m (genitive κᾰ́δου); second declension

1. pail, bucket, jar, cask, vessel for water or wine
2. liquid measure
3. funerary urn

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰ́δος ho kádos	τὼ κᾰ́δω tṑ kádō	οἱ κᾰ́δοι hoi kádoi
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰ́δου toû kádou	τοῖν κᾰ́δοιν toîn kádoin	τῶν κᾰ́δων tôn kádōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰ́δῳ tôi kádōi	τοῖν κᾰ́δοιν toîn kádoin	τοῖς κᾰ́δοις toîs kádois
Accusative	τὸν κᾰ́δον tòn kádon	τὼ κᾰ́δω tṑ kádō	τοὺς κᾰ́δους toùs kádous
Vocative	κᾰ́δε káde	κᾰ́δω kádō	κᾰ́δοι kádoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Second declension of ὁ κᾰ́δος; τοῦ κᾰ́δου (Attic)

Descendants

• Greek: κάδος (kádos)
• → Arabic: قادوس (qādūs) (see there for further descendants)
• → Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܩܕܣܐ (qadsā, qaddəsā) (see there for further descendants)

  • → Arabic: قدس (qadas)
• → Latin: cadus (see there for further descendants)
• →? Proto-Slavic: *kadь (via κάδιον (kádion, diminutive)) (see there for further descendants)

References

1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάδος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 614
2. Podolsky, Baruch (1998) “Notes on Hebrew Etymology”, in Schlomo Isre'el, Itamar Singer, Ran Zadok, editors, Past links: Studies in the languages and cultures of the ancient Near East (Israel Oriental studies; 18)‎, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, →ISBN, pages 199–200

Further reading

• “κάδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Brown, John Pairman (1995) Israel and Hellas (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft; 231), volume I, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, pages 143–145
• 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
• κάδος 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.
  • box idem, page 92.
  • jar idem, page 461.
  • urn idem, page 940.

Greek

Noun

κάδος • (kádos) m (plural κάδοι)

1. bin, bucket, pail, tub, cask

   κάδος απορριμμάτων (refuse bin)

   κάδος πλυντηρίου (washing machine drum)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	κάδος •	κάδοι •
genitive	κάδου •	κάδων •
accusative	κάδο •	κάδους •
vocative	κάδε •	κάδοι •

Declension of κάδος

Derived terms

• κάδος απορριμμάτων m (kádos aporrimmáton)