Gennadius Scholarius, Introduction to Grammar 2.457.5-9
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Context
Georgio Kourtesios Scholarios was a prominent intellectual and
theologian who lived during the first three quarters of the 15th century. He served as
Ecumencial Patriarch of Constantinople with the ecclesiastical name Gennadius II in
1454-1464, during the early sultanate of Mehmed II. Among his numerous published works
on diverse topics is his Introduction to Grammar, which largely
summarizes the treatises of earlier scholars. In this passage, Gennadius cited the
toponym Kaisareia as an example of words with the initial syllable
kai.
Text
ΚΕ. Τὰ ἀπὸ τῆς κε συλλαβῆς ἀρχόμενα πάντα διά τοῦ ε ψιλοῦ γράφονται,
πλὴν τοῦ καιρός, ὁ χρόνος· καιρικός· καινόν, τὸ νέον καὶ παράδοξον· καινίζω· καινοτομῶ·
καινουργῶ, καὶ εἴ τι ἀπὸ τούτων· καίνω, τὸ κόπτω, καὶ καινίς, ἡ μάχαιρα· καίω· καιρία
πληγή· Καῖσαρ· Καισάριος· Καισάρεια.1
Textual Note
Ed. Jugie, Petit, and Siderides 1936Translation
KE. Everything beginning with the syllable KE is written with the
plain epsilon, except for kairos, the time; kairikos;
kainon, “the new and paradoxical thing”; kainizo; kainotomo;
kainourgo, and whatever (is formed) from these (words);
kaino, verb “to cut”, and kainis, knife;
kaio; kairia plege; Kaisar; Kaisarios;
Kaisareia
.
Translation Note
Trans. J. L. RifeWorks Cited
- 1 Unknown, Etymologicon magnum; seu verius, Lexicon saepissime vocabulorum origines indagans, ex pluribus lexicis, scholiastis et grammaticis anonymi cuiusdam opera, ed. Thomas Gaisford (Oxford: E Typographeo academico, 1848), part: 2, line: 457.5-9.
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