κέλωρ

The ending, which can be found also in ἕλωρ (hélōr) and τέκμωρ (tékmōr), suggests an original neuter descendance. Perhaps it arose from *κέρωρ by dissimilation, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“to grow”), the same root of Old Armenian սեռ (seṙ, “kind, species, race”). Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise”), the same root of Lithuanian kìlti (“to rise”).

κέλωρ • (kélōr) m (genitive κέλορος); third declension

1. (poetic) son

   Synonym: υἱός (huiós)

• κελώρῐον (kelṓrion)

If dissimilated from *κέρωρ, the word may derive from κείρω (keírō, “to cut”). However, given the meaning, one would rather expect a foreign word, perhaps of Pre-Greek origin.

κέλωρ • (kélōr)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: ἐκτομίας (ektomías, “castrated person”), γάλλος (gállos, “eunuch”), σπάδων (spádōn, “eunuch”).

From the same root of κελαρύζω (kelarúzō, “to murmur”).

κέλωρ • (kélōr)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice”).

• “κέλωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κέλωρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κέλωρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Hesychius' Lexicon: κ