κάματος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of κάμνω (kámnō, “to be weary”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.ma.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.ma.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ma.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.ma.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.ma.tos/
Noun
κάμᾰτος • (kámatos) m (genitive κᾰμάτου); second declension
- toil, trouble
- weariness, exhaustion, fatigue, tiredness
- product of toil; thing made
- (Byzantine, finance) interest (price of credit)
Declension
Second declension of ὁ κάμᾰτος; τοῦ καμᾰ́του (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κάμᾰτος ho kámatos | τὼ καμᾰ́τω tṑ kamátō | οἱ κάμᾰτοι hoi kámatoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ καμᾰ́του toû kamátou | τοῖν καμᾰ́τοιν toîn kamátoin | τῶν καμᾰ́των tôn kamátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ καμᾰ́τῳ tôi kamátōi | τοῖν καμᾰ́τοιν toîn kamátoin | τοῖς καμᾰ́τοις toîs kamátois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κάμᾰτον tòn kámaton | τὼ καμᾰ́τω tṑ kamátō | τοὺς καμᾰ́τους toùs kamátous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κάμᾰτε kámate | καμᾰ́τω kamátō | κάμᾰτοι kámatoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Descendants
- → Albanian: kamatë
- → Macedonian: камата (kamata)
- → Romanian: camătă
- → Serbo-Croatian: kamata
Further reading
- κάματος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κάματος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάματος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- κάματος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- κάματος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- exhaustion idem, page 291.
- fatigue idem, page 310.
- labour idem, page 472.
- prostration idem, page 653.
- tedium idem, page 859.
- toil idem, page 880.
- trouble idem, page 897.
- weariness idem, page 970.
- work idem, page 988.