κάμμαρος

Ancient Greek

From Pre-Greek. This term is potentially a cognate of Danish hummer, Old Norse humarr (“lobster”) (which is the source of French homard).^[1]

κᾰ́μμᾰρος • (kắmmăros) m (genitive κᾰμμᾰ́ρου); second declension

a kind of lobster or shrimp
- 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 60
- Sophr. 26
- Rhinth. 18
(medicine) a kind of aconite (used as a cooling medicine)
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On the Places in Man 27
- Stratt. 21
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 4.76
- 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 41
1. larkspur, Consolida ajacis (syn. Delphinium ajacis)
  - Ps.-Dsc. 3.73
2. mandrake, Mandragora officinarum
  - Ps.-Dsc. 4.75

Second declension of ὁ κᾰ́μμᾰρος; τοῦ κᾰμμᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾰ́μμᾰρος ho kắmmăros	τὼ κᾰμμᾰ́ρω tṑ kămmắrō	οἱ κᾰ́μμᾰροι hoi kắmmăroi
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰμμᾰ́ρου toû kămmắrou	τοῖν κᾰμμᾰ́ροιν toîn kămmắroin	τῶν κᾰμμᾰ́ρων tôn kămmắrōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰμμᾰ́ρῳ tōî kămmắrōi	τοῖν κᾰμμᾰ́ροιν toîn kămmắroin	τοῖς κᾰμμᾰ́ροις toîs kămmắrois
Accusative	τὸν κᾰ́μμᾰρον tòn kắmmăron	τὼ κᾰμμᾰ́ρω tṑ kămmắrō	τοὺς κᾰμμᾰ́ρους toùs kămmắrous
Vocative	κᾰ́μμᾰρε kắmmăre	κᾰμμᾰ́ρω kămmắrō	κᾰ́μμᾰροι kắmmăroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάμμαρος 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 631