κωμήτης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κωμῑ́της (kōmī́tēs)

Etymology

κώμη (kṓmē, “unwalled village”) +‎ -της (-tēs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔː.mɛ̌ː.tɛːs/ → /koˈmi.tis/ → /koˈmi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔː.mɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈme̝.te̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈmi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈmi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈmi.tis/

Noun

κωμήτης • (kōmḗtēs) m (genitive κωμήτου); first declension

1. villager, countryman
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 762A
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 763A
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.24
   • 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.14
2. (urban) inhabitant of the same quarter or district
   • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 965
   • 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 476

Inflection

First declension of ὁ κωμήτης; τοῦ κωμήτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κωμήτης ho kōmḗtēs	τὼ κωμήτᾱ tṑ kōmḗtā	οἱ κωμῆται hoi kōmêtai
Genitive	τοῦ κωμήτου toû kōmḗtou	τοῖν κωμήταιν toîn kōmḗtain	τῶν κωμητῶν tôn kōmētôn
Dative	τῷ κωμήτῃ tôi kōmḗtēi	τοῖν κωμήταιν toîn kōmḗtain	τοῖς κωμήταις toîs kōmḗtais
Accusative	τὸν κωμήτην tòn kōmḗtēn	τὼ κωμήτᾱ tṑ kōmḗtā	τοὺς κωμήτᾱς toùs kōmḗtās
Vocative	κωμῆτᾰ kōmêta	κωμήτᾱ kōmḗtā	κωμῆται kōmêtai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἑβδομηκοντακωμῆται (Hebdomēkontakōmêtai)

References

• “κωμήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κωμήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κωμήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • villager idem, page 952.