καλόγηρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καλός (kalós, “good”) + γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) + -ος (-os)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.ló.ɡɛː.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈlo.ɡe̝.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈlo.ʝi.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈlo.ʝi.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈlo.ʝi.ros/
Adjective
κᾰλόγηρος • (kălógēros) m or f (neuter κᾰλόγηρον); second declension (Byzantine)
- venerable
- (nominalized, masculine, Christianity) monk
Declension
| Number | Singular | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||||
| Nominative | κᾰλόγηρος kălógēros |
κᾰλόγηρον kălógēron |
κᾰλόγηροι kălógēroi |
κᾰλόγηρᾰ kălógēră | ||||||||||
| Genitive | κᾰλογήρου kălogḗrou |
κᾰλογήρου kălogḗrou |
κᾰλογήρων kălogḗrōn |
κᾰλογήρων kălogḗrōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | κᾰλογήρῳ kălogḗrōi |
κᾰλογήρῳ kălogḗrōi |
κᾰλογήροις kălogḗrois |
κᾰλογήροις kălogḗrois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | κᾰλόγηρον kălógēron |
κᾰλόγηρον kălógēron |
κᾰλογήρους kălogḗrous |
κᾰλόγηρᾰ kălógēră | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰλόγηρε kălógēre |
κᾰλόγηρον kălógēron |
κᾰλόγηροι kălógēroi |
κᾰλόγηρᾰ kălógēră | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: καλόγερος (kalógeros)
- → Old Church Slavonic: калоугеръ (kalugerŭ)
- → Old East Slavic: калугеръ (kalugerŭ)
- → Italian: Calogero
- → Italian: caloiero
- Sicilian: calòjiru
Further reading
- καλόγηρος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “καλόγηρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pape, Wilhelm (1914), “καλόγηρος”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- καλόγηρος 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
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “καλόγηρος”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 623