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- κ352ΚάρKarian, CarianAristophanes [writes]: "if he is a slave and a Karian, like Exekestides, let him grow grandfathers amongst us, and phratry-members will appear".
- κ398ΚάρμηλοςKarmelos, Carmelus, Carmel… mountain [of that name]. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Carmelian mountain'.
- κ374ΚᾶρεςKarians, Carians(See already kappa 358.) In SW Asia Minor; OCD(4) s.v. Caria.
- κ358ΚάραςKarians, CariansName of a people.
- κ361ΚάρβωνCarbo[genitive] *ka/rbwnos. Interpretation of a dream: to walk on charcoals shows harm coming from an enemy.
- κ373ΚαρδοῦχοιKardouchi, CarduchiA careless summary of what is said by Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.27-28: the Kardouchoi (whom the Greek mercenaries encountered in Kurdistan) were armed only with arrows and slings, and it was as archers that they …
- κ424Κάρτα ἐπαφρόδιτοςextremely charming[no gloss]
- κ390Καρίνη γυνήKarian woman, Carian woman[no gloss]
- κ1496Κηδωλόςcarer, care-giver[Meaning] one who takes thought and is solicitous of everything.
- κ434ΚαρυάνδαKaryanda, CaryandaA city of Karia.
- κ384ΚάρθαιαKarthaia, CarthaeaA certain place.
- κ389Καρικὸν θῦμαCarian sacrifice, Karian sacrifice… are sacrificing lean or inedible [sc. animal] limbs. For the Carians sacrifice a dog. Eunapius [writes this?].
- κ403ΚαρνειῶνοςKarneion, Carnion[no gloss]
- κ444ΚαρχηδώνKarkhedon, Karchedon, CarthageA city of Libya, which happened to be the largest city in the inhabited world and the most powerful; it was also called Bursa, from a story. See also under 'Africanus'.
- κ1733Κλεωναίου χάρωνοςof a fearsome Kleonaian[Meaning] of a fierce lion.
- κ445ΚαρχηδώνKarkhedon, Karchedon, Carthage… 4648 (and kappa 444). [1] See under alpha 4648 for Carthage's two alternative names: Africa and Bursa. [2] Cyprian, bishop of Carthage in the 3rd century: see web address 1, and eta 264.
- κ882Καταψήσαςcaressing, having caressed… hand. Polybius [writes]: "addressing the children one by one and caressing them, he urged them to be cheerful." And Philostratus [writes]: "and caressing the ears of the horse and its mane."
- κ388Καρικῇ Μούσῃwith a Carian muse[Meaning] with a mournful [song]. For the Carians seem to be a kind of dirge-singers and to mourn the dead of others for payment. But some understood [Plato to mean] in a non-Greek and …
- κ383ΚαρθάγενναKarthagenna, Karthagena, Cartagena… the name of the Spanish coastal city still known as Cartagena (a corruption of Carthago Nova, "New Carthage"); Barrington Atlas Map 27 Grid E4.
- κ394ΚαρκίνοςKarkinos, Carcinus… in bodies is also called "crab." This is now called carcinoma. The word is also found frequently as a proper name.
- κ391ΚαρῖνοςKarinos, Carinus[Carinus], son of the emperor Carus, having come to power and [become] master of his desire, shot up [through] such great evil to tyranny, that to those who experienced it he made golden the …
- κ397Καρκίνου ποιήματαKarkinos' poems, Carcinus' poemsMenander in False Heracles [sc. uses the phrase]. Meaning riddling [ones]. For Karkinos, when depicting Orestes [departing?] from Ilion [and] compelled to admit that he had killed his mother, made him reply in riddles.
- κ375Κάρεψkareps[no gloss]
- κ356ΚάρανοςKaranos, Caranus… the Athenians sent forty ships as aid [to Olynthos] with Chares as general. But Chares was hit by a storm, and Euthykrates and Lasthenes betrayed Olynthos, so [Philip] removed the population of Olynthos and …
- κ1490Κηδείαcare [for the dead][Meaning] burial, carrying-out [of the dead].
- κ399ΚαρμητίςKarmetis, CarmetisAttested only here; location unknown. Perhaps [NF] an error for Carmel, but that was, at least primarily, a mountain (kappa 398). Barrington Atlas map 21 grid D6 gives a name 'Cametas' for the modern …
- κ909ΚατεγκαλῶI charge (someone) with[Used] with a genitive.
- κ1485Κηδεμονίαcare[Meaning] foresight. Also [sc. attested is] khdemw/n ["carer"], [meaning] one who gives thought, one who takes care, one who foresees.
- κ1314Κενεβρίωνof carrion[Meaning] of carcasses. For carcasses [nekrimaia] [are called] carrion [kenebria], by rearrangement of the letters.
- κ430ΚαρτερῶI persevere (in)[Used] with a dative.