χολέρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χολέρρη (kholérrhē) — Ionic

Etymology

A medical expression. Formally it may be compared with ὑστέρα (hustéra, “uterus, womb”) and names of diseases like ἴκτερος (íkteros, “jaundice”) and ὕδερος (húderos, “dropsy”). Perhaps, this word is a substantivization from unattested *χολερός (*kholerós), with shift of accent. According to Beekes, a basic derivation is more likely from χολή (kholḗ, “gall, bile”) than from χολάς (kholás, “entrails, guts”), but a Pre-Greek origin cannot be ruled out. Irish galar (“sickness, illness”) has to be kept separate.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰo.lé.ra/ → /xoˈle.ra/ → /xoˈle.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰo.lé.ra/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰoˈle.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xoˈle.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xoˈle.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xoˈle.ra/

Noun

χολέρᾰ • (kholéra) f (genitive χολέρᾱς); first declension

1. cholera, a disease in which the humors of the body are violently discharged by vomiting and stool
2. (in general) vomit, nausea

Inflection

First declension of ἡ χολέρᾰ; τῆς χολέρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χολέρᾰ hē kholéra	τὼ χολέρᾱ tṑ kholérā	αἱ χολέραι hai kholérai
Genitive	τῆς χολέρᾱς tês kholérās	τοῖν χολέραιν toîn kholérain	τῶν χολερῶν tôn kholerôn
Dative	τῇ χολέρᾳ têi kholérāi	τοῖν χολέραιν toîn kholérain	ταῖς χολέραις taîs kholérais
Accusative	τὴν χολέρᾰν tḕn kholéran	τὼ χολέρᾱ tṑ kholérā	τᾱ̀ς χολέρᾱς tā̀s kholérās
Vocative	χολέρᾰ kholéra	χολέρᾱ kholérā	χολέραι kholérai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χολεριάω (kholeriáō)
• χολερικός (kholerikós)
• χολερώδης (kholerṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: χολέρα (choléra)
• → Latin: cholera

Further reading

• “χολέρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χολέρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χολέρα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1641

Greek

Etymology

Ancient Greek χολέρα (kholéra)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xoˈle.ɾa/

Noun

χολέρα • (choléra) f (uncountable)

1. (medicine) cholera

Declension

	singular
nominative	χολέρα (choléra)
genitive	χολέρας (choléras)
accusative	χολέρα (choléra)
vocative	χολέρα (choléra)

Further reading

• χολέρα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• χολέρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el