κημός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κᾱμός (kāmós) – Doric
Etymology
Unexplained. The connection with Armenian քամեմ (kʿamem, “to press (out)”) is formally possible but it is incompatible with the probable basic meaning of the Greek word, wicker. The same holds with other supposed cognates like Lithuanian kāmanos (“harness”), Russian ком (kom, “clump”) and Middle High German hemmen (“to restrain, hamper”). Furnée suggests, instead, a derivation from a Pre-Greek source common to χάβος (khábos) and χαμόν (khamón).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛː.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ke̝ˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈmos/
Noun
κημός • (kēmós) m (genitive κημοῦ); second declension
- muzzle put on a led horse
- Synonyms: πνιγεύς (pnigeús), φιμός (phimós)
- nosebag for horses
- Synonym: χιλωτήρ (khilōtḗr)
- cloth used by bakers to cover the nose and the mouth
- weely, a wicker vessel
- funnel shaped top of the voting urn
- female ornament
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κημός; τοῦ κημοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κημός ho kēmós | τὼ κημώ tṑ kēmṓ | οἱ κημοί hoi kēmoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κημοῦ toû kēmoû | τοῖν κημοῖν toîn kēmoîn | τῶν κημῶν tôn kēmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κημῷ tôi kēmôi | τοῖν κημοῖν toîn kēmoîn | τοῖς κημοῖς toîs kēmoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κημόν tòn kēmón | τὼ κημώ tṑ kēmṓ | τοὺς κημούς toùs kēmoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | κημέ kēmé | κημώ kēmṓ | κημοί kēmoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κημόω (kēmóō)
- κήμωσις (kḗmōsis)
Descendants
- → Latin: cāmus
Further reading
- “κημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κημός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κημός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 688–689