κάρα

See also: καρά

Contents
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
Usage notes
Inflection
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading

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
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▪ IPA(key): /ká.raː/ → /ˈka.ra/ → /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
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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 (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=ka%2Fra1)”, in
Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
▪ “κάρα (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=exact&lookup=ka/ra&lang=greek)”, in
Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
▪ κάρα (https://archive.org/stream/BaillyDictionnaireGrecFrancais/Bailly_DictionnaireGrecFrancais#page/n
1018/mode/1up) in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
▪ “κάρα (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/resolveform?type=exact&lookup=ka/ra&lang=greek)”, 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[1] (https://artflsrv0
3.uchicago.edu/efts/woodhouse/woodhouse_search.html), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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▪ 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

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