πάλμυς

See also: Πάλμυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Originally a Lydian word.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pál.mys/ → /ˈpal.mys/ → /ˈpal.mis/

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

Noun

πᾰ́λμῠς • (pálmus) m (genitive πᾰ́λμῠδος); third declension

1. king, chief

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ πᾰ́λμῠς; τοῦ πᾰ́λμῠδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πᾰ́λμῠς ho pálmus	τὼ πᾰ́λμῠδε tṑ pálmude	οἱ πᾰ́λμῠδες hoi pálmudes
Genitive	τοῦ πᾰ́λμῠδος toû pálmudos	τοῖν πᾰλμῠ́δοιν toîn palmúdoin	τῶν πᾰλμῠ́δων tôn palmúdōn
Dative	τῷ πᾰ́λμῠδῐ tôi pálmudi	τοῖν πᾰλμῠ́δοιν toîn palmúdoin	τοῖς πᾰ́λμῠσῐ / πᾰ́λμῠσῐν toîs pálmusi(n)
Accusative	τὸν πᾰ́λμῠδᾰ tòn pálmuda	τὼ πᾰ́λμῠδε tṑ pálmude	τοὺς πᾰ́λμῠδᾰς toùs pálmudas
Vocative	πᾰ́λμῠς pálmus	πᾰ́λμῠδε pálmude	πᾰ́λμῠδες pálmudes
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 *-ds.

Further reading

• “πάλμυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πάλμυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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