δημός

See also: Δήμος, δήμος, and δῆμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally derived from a Proto-Indo-European *deh₂mo- (“oil, fluid”), from *deh₂- (“to flow”), whence Old Armenian տամուկ (tamuk, “humid, moist”), Albanian dhjamë (“fat”), Sanskrit दानु (dānu, “fluid, drop”). Beekes is skeptical of the connection to the Albanian and Sanskrit (and doesn't mention the Armenian), but does note Demiraj's theory that the terms may be from a shared non-Indo-European substrate.^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /dɛː.mós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /de̝ˈmos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈmos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈmos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈmos/

Noun

δημός • (dēmós) m (genitive δημοῦ); second declension

fat
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.750
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 538
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 40
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.243
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.380

Declension

Second declension of ὁ δημός; τοῦ δημοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ δημός ho dēmós
Genitive	τοῦ δημοῦ toû dēmoû
Dative	τῷ δημῷ tōî dēmōî
Accusative	τὸν δημόν tòn dēmón
Vocative	δημέ dēmé
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δημός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 325-6

“δημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“δημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
δημός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
δημός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
δημός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fat idem, page 309.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δημός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 325-6

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