χαμαίμηλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From χαμαί (khamaí, “near the ground”) +‎ μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰa.mǎi̯.mɛː.lon/ → /xaˈmɛ.mi.lon/ → /xaˈme.mi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰa.mǎi̯.mɛː.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰaˈmɛ.me̝.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xaˈmɛ.mi.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xaˈme.mi.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xaˈme.mi.lon/

Noun

χᾰμαίμηλον • (khamaímēlon) n (genitive χᾰμαιμήλου); second declension

1. Roman camomile (Chamaemelum nobile)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ χᾰμαίμηλον; τοῦ χᾰμαιμήλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ χᾰμαίμηλον tò khamaímēlon	τὼ χᾰμαιμήλω tṑ khamaimḗlō	τᾰ̀ χᾰμαίμηλᾰ tà khamaímēla
Genitive	τοῦ χᾰμαιμήλου toû khamaimḗlou	τοῖν χᾰμαιμήλοιν toîn khamaimḗloin	τῶν χᾰμαιμήλων tôn khamaimḗlōn
Dative	τῷ χᾰμαιμήλῳ tôi khamaimḗlōi	τοῖν χᾰμαιμήλοιν toîn khamaimḗloin	τοῖς χᾰμαιμήλοις toîs khamaimḗlois
Accusative	τὸ χᾰμαίμηλον tò khamaímēlon	τὼ χᾰμαιμήλω tṑ khamaimḗlō	τᾰ̀ χᾰμαίμηλᾰ tà khamaímēla
Vocative	χᾰμαίμηλον khamaímēlon	χᾰμαιμήλω khamaimḗlō	χᾰμαίμηλᾰ khamaímēla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χαμαιμήλατον (khamaimḗlaton)
• χαμαιμηλᾶτον (khamaimēlâton)
• χαμαιμηλέλαιον (khamaimēlélaion)
• χαμαιμήλινος (khamaimḗlinos)

 

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: χαμόμηλον (khamómēlon)
  • Greek: χαμομήλι (chamomíli)
• → Latin: chamaemēlon
  • Catalan: camamilla
  • → German: Kamille
    • → Hungarian: kamilla
  • Old French: camomille
    • → Middle English: camamille
      • English: camomile
• → Translingual: Chamaemelum

Further reading

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