κεμάς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κεμμάς (kemmás), κεμφάς (kemphás)

Etymology

A derivation in -άς (-ás), probably from an o-stem *κέμος (*kémos, “hornless”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hindiz (“hind, doe”) and Lithuanian šmùlas (“without horn”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ke.más/ → /ceˈmas/ → /ceˈmas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ke.más/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /keˈmas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ceˈmas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ceˈmas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ceˈmas/

Noun

κεμᾰ́ς • (kemás) f (genitive κεμᾰ́δος); third declension

1. pricket, two-year-old deer

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κεμᾰ́ς; τῆς κεμᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κεμᾰ́ς hē kemás	τὼ κεμᾰ́δε tṑ kemáde	αἱ κεμᾰ́δες hai kemádes
Genitive	τῆς κεμᾰ́δος tês kemádos	τοῖν κεμᾰ́δοιν toîn kemádoin	τῶν κεμᾰ́δων tôn kemádōn
Dative	τῇ κεμᾰ́δῐ têi kemádi	τοῖν κεμᾰ́δοιν toîn kemádoin	ταῖς κεμᾰ́σῐ / κεμᾰ́σῐν taîs kemási(n)
Accusative	τὴν κεμᾰ́δᾰ tḕn kemáda	τὼ κεμᾰ́δε tṑ kemáde	τᾱ̀ς κεμᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s kemádas
Vocative	κεμᾰ́ς kemás	κεμᾰ́δε kemáde	κεμᾰ́δες kemádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• κεμᾰ́δειον (kemádeion)
• κεμᾰδοσσόος (kemadossóos)

 

Further reading

• “κεμάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κεμάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κεμάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κεμάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κεμάς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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