κόμμωσις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

κομμόω (kommóō, “to beautify, embellish”) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kóm.mɔː.sis/ → /ˈkom.mo.sis/ → /ˈko.mo.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kóm.mɔː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.mo.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.mo.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkom.mo.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mo.sis/

Noun

κόμμωσῐς • (kómmōsis) f (genitive κομμώσεως); third declension

1. ornamentation, embellishment
2. elaborate and sophisticated treatment

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κόμμωσῐς; τῆς κομμώσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κόμμωσῐς hē kómmōsis	τὼ κομμώσει tṑ kommṓsei	αἱ κομμώσεις hai kommṓseis
Genitive	τῆς κομμώσεως tês kommṓseōs	τοῖν κομμωσέοιν toîn kommōséoin	τῶν κομμώσεων tôn kommṓseōn
Dative	τῇ κομμώσει têi kommṓsei	τοῖν κομμωσέοιν toîn kommōséoin	ταῖς κομμώσεσῐ / κομμώσεσῐν taîs kommṓsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κόμμωσῐν tḕn kómmōsin	τὼ κομμώσει tṑ kommṓsei	τᾱ̀ς κομμώσεις tā̀s kommṓseis
Vocative	κόμμωσῐ kómmōsi	κομμώσει kommṓsei	κομμώσεις kommṓseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• κόμμωσις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόμμωσις in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “κόμμωσις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “κόμμωσις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press