Editing Keres (section)

==Etymology==
The Greek word [[:wikt:κήρ|κήρ]] means "the goddess of death" or "doom"<ref name="e090">{{cite web | title=ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ: Κήρ | website=University of Chicago Logeion | url=https://logeion.uchicago.edu/%CE%9A%CE%AE%CF%81 | access-date=2024-07-05}}</ref><ref name="a023">{{cite web | title=Ancient Greek: Κήρ  | website=Liddell, Scott, Jones Ancient Greek Lexicon (LSJ) | date=2024-03-23 | url=https://lsj.gr/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%AE%CF%81 | access-date=2024-07-05}}</ref> and appears as a proper noun in the singular and plural as Κήρ and Κῆρες to refer to divinities. [[Homer]] uses ''Κῆρες'' in the phrase ''κήρες θανάτοιο'', "Keres of death". By extension the word may mean "plague, disease"  and in prose "blemish or defect".  The relative verb  ''κεραΐζω'' or ''κείρω'' means "ravage or plunder".<ref>{{cite web |title=Greek Word Study Tool |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=kh%2Fres&la=greek#lexicon |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> Sometimes in Homer the words κήρ and [[moirai|moira]] have similar meanings. The older meaning was probably "destruction of the dead", and [[Hesychius of Alexandria]] relates the word to the verb ''κηραινειν'' "decay".<ref>Nilsson Vol I, p. 224</ref>