κάμμαρος
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Pre-Greek. This term is potentially a cognate of Danish hummer, Old Norse humarr (“lobster”) (which is the source of French homard).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kám.ma.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkam.ma.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkam.ma.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkam.ma.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.ma.ros/
Noun
editκᾰ́μμᾰρος • (kámmaros) m (genitive κᾰμμᾰ́ρου); second declension
- a kind of lobster or shrimp
- Sophr. 26
- Rhinth. 18
- (medicine) a kind of aconite (used as a cooling medicine)
- Stratt. 21
- larkspur, Consolida ajacis (syn. Delphinium ajacis)
- Ps.-Dsc. 3.73
- mandrake, Mandragora officinarum
- Ps.-Dsc. 4.75
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κᾰ́μμᾰρος ho kámmaros |
τὼ κᾰμμᾰ́ρω tṑ kammárō |
οἱ κᾰ́μμᾰροι hoi kámmaroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰμμᾰ́ρου toû kammárou |
τοῖν κᾰμμᾰ́ροιν toîn kammároin |
τῶν κᾰμμᾰ́ρων tôn kammárōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰμμᾰ́ρῳ tôi kammárōi |
τοῖν κᾰμμᾰ́ροιν toîn kammároin |
τοῖς κᾰμμᾰ́ροις toîs kammárois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κᾰ́μμᾰρον tòn kámmaron |
τὼ κᾰμμᾰ́ρω tṑ kammárō |
τοὺς κᾰμμᾰ́ρους toùs kammárous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́μμᾰρε kámmare |
κᾰμμᾰ́ρω kammárō |
κᾰ́μμᾰροι kámmaroi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- Latin: cammarus
References
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάμμαρος 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 631
Further reading
edit- “κάμμαρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάμμαρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
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