κάγκαμον

κάγκαμον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰ́γκᾰλον (kánkalon)

Etymology

From an Oriental source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /káŋ.ka.mon/ → /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/ → /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /káŋ.ka.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ka.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/

Noun

κᾰ́γκᾰμον • (kánkamon) n (genitive κᾰγκᾰ́μου); second declension

1. bisabol, a gum produced by the plant Commiphora kataf

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κᾰ́γκᾰμον; τοῦ κᾰγκᾰ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾰ́γκᾰμον tò kánkamon	τὼ κᾰγκᾰ́μω tṑ kankámō	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́γκᾰμᾰ tà kánkama
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰγκᾰ́μου toû kankámou	τοῖν κᾰγκᾰ́μοιν toîn kankámoin	τῶν κᾰγκᾰ́μων tôn kankámōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰγκᾰ́μῳ tôi kankámōi	τοῖν κᾰγκᾰ́μοιν toîn kankámoin	τοῖς κᾰγκᾰ́μοις toîs kankámois
Accusative	τὸ κᾰ́γκᾰμον tò kánkamon	τὼ κᾰγκᾰ́μω tṑ kankámō	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́γκᾰμᾰ tà kánkama
Vocative	κᾰ́γκᾰμον kánkamon	κᾰγκᾰ́μω kankámō	κᾰ́γκᾰμᾰ kánkama
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cancamum

Further reading

• “κάγκαμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάγκαμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN