κάρα

See also: καρά

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κάρη (kárē) — Homeric, Ionic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kárahə, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-(e)s-n- (“top of the head/skull”), from the root *ḱerh₂- (“head, horn, top”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.raː/ → /ˈka.ra/ → /ˈka.ra/

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

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

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.

Third declension of τὸ κᾰ́ρᾱ; τοῦ κᾰ́ρᾱτος (Attic)

Related terms

• κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “upper part of the head, skull”)
• κάρηνον (kárēnon, “head; mountain top”)

Descendants

• → Vulgar Latin: cara (see there for further 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.
  • head idem, page 389.
  • throw idem, page 871.
• 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