κάδαμος

κάδαμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

If reliable, it may belong to Homeric κεκαδήσω (kekadḗsō, “to rob”). Not related to Old Latin kadamitās. One gets the impression of a Pre-Greek word, and it is preferable to abandon attempt at an inner Greek or Indo-European etymology.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.da.mos/ → /ˈka.ða.mos/ → /ˈka.ða.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.da.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.da.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ða.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ða.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ða.mos/

Adjective

κάδαμος • (kádamos)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: τυφλός (tuphlós, “blind”), as they say in Salamis

References

• κάδαμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: κ