κώμη

Ancient Greek

Uncertain. Has been compared to Proto-Germanic *haimaz, Lithuanian káimas.

κώμη • (kṓmē) f (genitive κώμης); first declension

an unwalled village or country town
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1448A.36
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 18
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.98
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 626C
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.96
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.10
- 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.94
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.2.5
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1261A.28
a quarter or ward of a city
- 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Areopagiticus 46
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 746D

First declension of ἡ κώμη; τῆς κώμης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κώμη hē kṓmē	τὼ κώμᾱ tṑ kṓmā	αἱ κῶμαι hai kômai
Genitive	τῆς κώμης tês kṓmēs	τοῖν κώμαιν toîn kṓmain	τῶν κωμῶν tôn kōmôn
Dative	τῇ κώμῃ tēî kṓmēi	τοῖν κώμαιν toîn kṓmain	ταῖς κώμαις taîs kṓmais
Accusative	τὴν κώμην tḕn kṓmēn	τὼ κώμᾱ tṑ kṓmā	τᾱ̀ς κώμᾱς tā̀s kṓmās
Vocative	κώμη kṓmē	κώμᾱ kṓmā	κῶμαι kômai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.