βρῶμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown. The word has been supposed to be identical with βρόμος (brómos, “loud noise”) (with hypothetical semantic development "emanating noise" > "emanating smell"),^[1] and, within modern Greek, has apparently been folk-etymologically conflated with it (see βρόμικος (vrómikos, “dirty, stinky”) for more).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brɔ̂ː.mos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbro.mos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβro.mos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.mos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.mos/

Noun

βρῶμος • (brômos) m (genitive βρώμου); second declension

stink, stench, noisome smell

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βρῶμος; τοῦ βρώμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βρῶμος ho brômos	τὼ βρώμω tṑ brṓmō	οἱ βρῶμοι hoi brômoi
Genitive	τοῦ βρώμου toû brṓmou	τοῖν βρώμοιν toîn brṓmoin	τῶν βρώμων tôn brṓmōn
Dative	τῷ βρώμῳ tōî brṓmōi	τοῖν βρώμοιν toîn brṓmoin	τοῖς βρώμοις toîs brṓmois
Accusative	τὸν βρῶμον tòn brômon	τὼ βρώμω tṑ brṓmō	τοὺς βρώμους toùs brṓmous
Vocative	βρῶμε brôme	βρώμω brṓmō	βρῶμοι brômoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

βρωμέω (brōméō)
βρωμώδης (brōmṓdēs)

Descendants

→ French: brome (learned) (see there for further descendants)
→ Latin: brōmus (learned)
- → English: bromus (learned)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βρῶμος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 246