χυμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Traditionally taken as a nominal derivation of χέω (khéō, “to pour”), but like χυλός (khulós, “juice, gruel”), it is unclear how the long -ῡ- can be explained.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

χῡμός • (khūmós) m (genitive χῡμοῦ); second declension

  1. juice of plants
  2. animal juices, humors
    Synonym: χυλός (khulós)
  3. flavour, savour

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ χῡμός; τοῦ χῡμοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ χῡμός
ho khūmós 		τὼ χῡμώ
tṑ khūmṓ 		οἱ χῡμοί
hoi khūmoí
Genitive τοῦ χῡμοῦ
toû khūmoû 		τοῖν χῡμοῖν
toîn khūmoîn 		τῶν χῡμῶν
tôn khūmôn
Dative τῷ χῡμῷ
tōî khūmōî 		τοῖν χῡμοῖν
toîn khūmoîn 		τοῖς χῡμοῖς
toîs khūmoîs
Accusative τὸν χῡμόν
tòn khūmón 		τὼ χῡμώ
tṑ khūmṓ 		τοὺς χῡμούς
toùs khūmoús
Vocative χῡμέ
khūmé 		χῡμώ
khūmṓ 		χῡμοί
khūmoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

  • χυμίζω (khumízō)
  • χυμίον (khumíon)
  • χυμόω (khumóō)
  • χυμώδης (khumṓdēs)

Descendants

  • Greek: χυμός (chymós)
  • → Arabic: كَيْمُوس (kaymūs)
  • → Latin: chȳmus

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χῡλός ( > DER > χῡμός)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1653

Further reading

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χυμός (khumós, “juice”), from χέω (khéō, “I pour”).

Noun

χυμός • (chymós) m (plural χυμοί)

  1. juice

Declension

Declension of χυμός
singular plural
nominative χυμός (chymós) χυμοί (chymoí)
genitive χυμού (chymoú) χυμών (chymón)
accusative χυμό (chymó) χυμούς (chymoús)
vocative χυμέ (chymé) χυμοί (chymoí)

Derived terms

Further reading

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