κημός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κᾱμός (kāmós) — Doric

Etymology

Unexplained. The connection with Old Armenian քամեմ (kʻamem, “to press (out)”) is formally possible but it is incompatible with the probable basic meaning of the Greek word, wicker. The same holds with other supposed cognates like Lithuanian kāmanos (“harness”), Russian ком (kom, “clump”) and Middle High German hemmen (“to restrain, hamper”). Furnée suggests, instead, a derivation from a Pre-Greek source common to χάβος (khábos) and χαμόν (khamón).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.mós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝ˈmos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈmos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈmos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈmos/

Noun

κημός • (kēmós) m (genitive κημοῦ); second declension

muzzle put on a led horse
Synonyms: πνιγεύς (pnigeús), φιμός (phimós)
nosebag for horses
Synonym: χιλωτήρ (khilōtḗr)
cloth used by bakers to cover the nose and the mouth
weely, a wicker vessel
funnel shaped top of the voting urn
female ornament

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κημός; τοῦ κημοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κημός ho kēmós	τὼ κημώ tṑ kēmṓ	οἱ κημοί hoi kēmoí
Genitive	τοῦ κημοῦ toû kēmoû	τοῖν κημοῖν toîn kēmoîn	τῶν κημῶν tôn kēmôn
Dative	τῷ κημῷ tōî kēmōî	τοῖν κημοῖν toîn kēmoîn	τοῖς κημοῖς toîs kēmoîs
Accusative	τὸν κημόν tòn kēmón	τὼ κημώ tṑ kēmṓ	τοὺς κημούς toùs kēmoús
Vocative	κημέ kēmé	κημώ kēmṓ	κημοί kēmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

κημόω (kēmóō)
κήμωσις (kḗmōsis)

Descendants

→ Latin: cāmus