NODE / 1308attestedAncient Greek

κᾶδος

TRANSLITERATION kâdos

Doric form of κῆδος in the care, grief, mourning, and affinity family

DATE: Doric Ancient Greek variant
SENSE: care grief mourning affinity doric variant
FAMILY: Indo-European / Hellenic
CANONICAL KEY: node:10:kados:attested:sense:care-grief-mourning-affinity-doric-variant

LSJ labels κᾶδος Doric and cites Pindar's death-context use. It is a dialect form, not a separate root claim.

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Ancient Greek · Homeric and later Ancient Greek · care grief mourning affinity neuter noun

κῆδος

care, concern, anxiety, grief, trouble, mourning, funeral rites, object of care, or connection by marriage

SOUND: Doric long ā corresponds to the η of the Ionic-Attic headword representation; LSJ prints the forms together rather than as separate lexemes.
MEANING: Care, grief, mourning, and related senses remain within one lexical family across the dialectal spelling and vowel difference.
CHRONOLOGY: Ancient Greek dialect history.
SCHOLAR: Liddell · Scott · Jones
CONFIDENCE: established — The dialect identity is explicit; no single date or place of the sound development is claimed.

Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek-English Lexicon — κῆδοςsupportsIntro text: Doric κᾶδος; Pythian 4.112

Labels and cites the Doric variant.

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