δημός
See also: Δήμος, δήμος, and δῆμος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂mo- from *deh₂- (“to flow”), whence Old Armenian տամուկ (tamuk, “humid, moist”), Albanian dhjamë (“fat”), Sanskrit दानु (dānu, “fluid, drop”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /dɛː.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /de̝ˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ðiˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ðiˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ðiˈmos/
Noun
δημός • (dēmós) m (genitive δημοῦ); second declension
- fat
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.750
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 538
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 40
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.243
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.380
Declension
Second declension of ὁ δημός; τοῦ δημοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ δημός ho dēmós | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ δημοῦ toû dēmoû | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ δημῷ tôi dēmôi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν δημόν tòn dēmón | ||||||||||||
Vocative | δημέ dēmé | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “δημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δημός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δημός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δημός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- fat idem, page 309.