κηρόν (keron)

κηρόν is an Ancient Greek form of κηρός, meaning “beeswax”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 2.28: ὡς τοῦτον τὸν κηρὸν ἐγὼ σὺν δαίμονι τάκω,

Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis 17: … ις καὶ μέλεσι χρησμῳδίαν. ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ πρῶτον ἐνταῦθά φασιν ἡρῷον μέτρον ἀκουσθῆναι, συμφέρετε πτερά, οἰωνοί, κηρόν τε, μέλισσαι ὅτε τῷ θεῷ ἐπιδεᾶ γενομένην ἀποβαλεῖν τὸ σεμνόν.

Hippocrates, De ulceribus 21: … ὶ ἔλαιον ὀλίγον. -Κηρὸς ὡς λευκότατος, στέαρ πρόσφατον καθαρόν. — Ἢ σκίλλαν, ἔλαιον λευκὸν, ῥητίνης ὀλίγον. — Κηρὸν, στέαρ συὸς παλαιὸν καὶ νέον, καὶ ἔλαιον, καὶ ἰὸς, καὶ σκίλλα, καὶ ῥητίνη, ἔστω δὲ δύο μοῖραι τοῦ παλαιοῦ στέ …

All forms of κηρός (declension 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.