κωμήτης
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κωμῑ́της (kōmī́tēs)
Etymology
κώμη (kṓmē, “unwalled village”) + -της (-tēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɔː.mɛ̌ː.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /koˈme̝.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /koˈmi.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /koˈmi.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /koˈmi.tis/
Noun
κωμήτης • (kōmḗtēs) m (genitive κωμήτου); first declension
- villager, countryman
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 762A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 763A
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.24
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.14
- (urban) inhabitant of the same quarter or district
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 965
- 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 476
Inflection
First declension of ὁ κωμήτης; τοῦ κωμήτου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κωμήτης ho kōmḗtēs | τὼ κωμήτᾱ tṑ kōmḗtā | οἱ κωμῆται hoi kōmêtai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κωμήτου toû kōmḗtou | τοῖν κωμήταιν toîn kōmḗtain | τῶν κωμητῶν tôn kōmētôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κωμήτῃ tôi kōmḗtēi | τοῖν κωμήταιν toîn kōmḗtain | τοῖς κωμήταις toîs kōmḗtais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κωμήτην tòn kōmḗtēn | τὼ κωμήτᾱ tṑ kōmḗtā | τοὺς κωμήτᾱς toùs kōmḗtās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κωμῆτᾰ kōmêta | κωμήτᾱ kōmḗtā | κωμῆται kōmêtai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἑβδομηκοντακωμῆται (Hebdomēkontakōmêtai)
References
- “κωμήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κωμήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κωμήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- villager idem, page 952.