κώμυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.myːs/ → /ˈko.mys/ → /ˈko.mis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.myːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.mis/

Noun

κώμῡς • (kṓmūs) f (genitive κώμῡθος); third declension

1. a bundle of hay
2. marsh

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κώμῡς; τῆς κώμῡθος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κώμῡς hē kṓmūs	τὼ κώμῡθε tṑ kṓmūthe	αἱ κώμῡθες hai kṓmūthes
Genitive	τῆς κώμῡθος tês kṓmūthos	τοῖν κωμῡ́θοιν toîn kōmū́thoin	τῶν κωμῡ́θων tôn kōmū́thōn
Dative	τῇ κώμῡθῐ têi kṓmūthi	τοῖν κωμῡ́θοιν toîn kōmū́thoin	ταῖς κώμῡσῐ / κώμῡσῐν taîs kṓmūsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κώμῡθᾰ tḕn kṓmūtha	τὼ κώμῡθε tṑ kṓmūthe	τᾱ̀ς κώμῡθᾰς tā̀s kṓmūthas
Vocative	κώμῡς kṓmūs	κώμῡθε kṓmūthe	κώμῡθες kṓmūthes
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 *-tʰs.

References

• “κώμυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κώμυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κώμυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette