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κατάρας (kataras)

κατάρας is an Ancient Greek form of καταίρω, meaning “come down, put into harbour”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of κατάρα, “curse; curses”.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus 3.2: … θυμὸς εἰς ἔργον ἐξέπεσε καὶ πρᾶξιν οὐκ εὐτυχὲς ἔχουσαν τέλος, ἡ δὲ Θησέως ὀργὴ μέχρι λόγου καὶ βλασφημίας καὶ κατάρας πρεσβυτικῆς προῆλθε, τὰ δʼ ἄλλα φαίνεται τῇ τύχῃ χρήσασθαι τὸ μειράκιον. ὥστε ταύτας μὲν ἄν τις ἀποδοίη τῷ Θη …

All forms of καταίρω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.