Κάδμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Pre-Greek origin, possibly Semitic (often thought to be Phoenician for “man from the east”), from Proto-Semitic *q-d-m (“to precede, come before”), with influence from κέκασμαι (kékasmai, “I have excelled, shined”). Compare Classical Syriac ܩܕܡ‎ (“to come before”), Arabic قدم‎, Hebrew קדם‎.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kád.mos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkað.mos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkað.mos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkað.mos/

Proper noun

Κᾰ́δμος • (Kádmos) m (genitive Κᾰ́δμου); second declension

Cadmus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κᾰ́δμος; τοῦ Κᾰ́δμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Κᾰ́δμος ho Kádmos
Genitive	τοῦ Κᾰ́δμου toû Kádmou
Dative	τῷ Κᾰ́δμῳ tôi Kádmōi
Accusative	τὸν Κᾰ́δμον tòn Kádmon
Vocative	Κᾰ́δμε Kádme
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Κᾰδμηΐς (Kadmēḯs)
Κᾰδμείᾱ (Kadmeíā)
Κᾰδμεῖος (Kadmeîos)

Descendants

Greek: Κάδμος (Kádmos)
Latin: Cadmus

References

“Κάδμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Κάδμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Κάδμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
“Κάδμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN