κωμήτης
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κωμῑ́της (kōmī́tēs)
Etymology
κώμη (kṓmē, “unwalled village”) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɔː.mɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /koˈme̝.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /koˈmi.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /koˈmi.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /koˈmi.tis/
Noun
κωμήτης • (kōmḗtēs) m (genitive κωμήτου); first declension
- villager, countryman
- (urban) inhabitant of the same quarter or district
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κωμήτης ho kōmḗtēs |
τὼ κωμήτᾱ tṑ kōmḗtā |
οἱ κωμῆται hoi kōmêtai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κωμήτου toû kōmḗtou |
τοῖν κωμήταιν toîn kōmḗtain |
τῶν κωμητῶν tôn kōmētôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κωμήτῃ tōî kōmḗtēi |
τοῖν κωμήταιν toîn kōmḗtain |
τοῖς κωμήταις toîs kōmḗtais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κωμήτην tòn kōmḗtēn |
τὼ κωμήτᾱ tṑ kōmḗtā |
τοὺς κωμήτᾱς toùs kōmḗtās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κωμῆτᾰ kōmêtă |
κωμήτᾱ kōmḗtā |
κωμῆται kōmêtai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἑβδομηκοντακωμῆται (Hebdomēkontakōmêtai)
References
- “κωμήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κωμήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κωμήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- villager idem, page 952.