κώμυς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɔ̌ː.myːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.mys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.mys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.mys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.mis/
Noun
κώμῡς • (kṓmūs) f (genitive κώμῡθος); third declension
- a bundle of hay, or (in the plural) of bamboo
- a branch of laurel placed before the gates, per Hesychius
- (in the plural only) reed bed, per Theophrastus's Historia Plantarum
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κώμῡς hē kṓmūs |
τὼ κώμῡθε tṑ kṓmūthe |
αἱ κώμῡθες hai kṓmūthes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κώμῡθος tês kṓmūthos |
τοῖν κωμῡ́θοιν toîn kōmū́thoin |
τῶν κωμῡ́θων tôn kōmū́thōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κώμῡθῐ tēî kṓmūthĭ |
τοῖν κωμῡ́θοιν toîn kōmū́thoin |
ταῖς κώμῡσῐ / κώμῡσῐν taîs kṓmūsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κώμῡθᾰ tḕn kṓmūthă |
τὼ κώμῡθε tṑ kṓmūthe |
τᾱ̀ς κώμῡθᾰς tā̀s kṓmūthăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κώμῡς kṓmūs |
κώμῡθε kṓmūthe |
κώμῡθες kṓmūthes | ||||||||||
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References
- “κώμυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κώμυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κώμυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette