κλεμμύς
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editThe formation is similar to that of synonymous words χέλυς (khélus) and ἐμύς (emús). Originally considered a folk-etymological adaptation to κλέμμα (klémma) and κλέπτω (kléptō, “to conceal”), because turtles can hide their bodies under their shell. Furnée compares κρεμύς (kremús, “a kind of fish”) and χρέμυς (khrémus, “a sort of cod”); these variants confirm that the word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /klem.mýs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /klemˈmys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /klemˈmys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /klemˈmys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kleˈmis/
Noun
editκλεμμῠ́ς • (klemmús) f (genitive κλεμμῠ́ος); third declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κλεμμῠ́ς hē klemmús |
τὼ κλεμμῠ́ε tṑ klemmúe |
αἱ κλεμμῠ́ες hai klemmúes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κλεμμῠός tês klemmuós |
τοῖν κλεμμῠοῖν toîn klemmuoîn |
τῶν κλεμμῠῶν tôn klemmuôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κλεμμῠῐ̈́ têi klemmuḯ |
τοῖν κλεμμῠοῖν toîn klemmuoîn |
ταῖς κλεμμῠσῐ́ / κλεμμῠσῐ́ν taîs klemmusí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κλεμμῠ́ν tḕn klemmún |
τὼ κλεμμῠ́ε tṑ klemmúe |
τᾱ̀ς κλεμμῦς / κλεμμῠ́ᾰς tā̀s klemmûs / klemmúas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κλεμμῠ́ klemmú |
κλεμμῠ́ε klemmúe |
κλεμμῠ́ες klemmúes | ||||||||||
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Further reading
edit- “κλεμμύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
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