κόμαρος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κόμαρον (kómaron)
- κύμαρος (kúmaros)
Etymology
Strömberg derives it from κόμη (kómē, “crown of a tree”) but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.ma.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
Mark the vowel length of the ambiguous vowel α by adding a macron after it if it is long, or a breve if it is short. By default, Module:grc-pronunciation assumes it is short if unmarked.
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Noun
κόμαρος • (kómaros) m (genitive κομάρου); second declension
- strawberry tree
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κόμαρος; τοῦ κομάρου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόμαρος ho kómaros | τὼ κομάρω tṑ komárō | οἱ κόμαροι hoi kómaroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κομάρου toû komárou | τοῖν κομάροιν toîn komároin | τῶν κομάρων tôn komárōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κομάρῳ tôi komárōi | τοῖν κομάροιν toîn komároin | τοῖς κομάροις toîs komárois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόμαρον tòn kómaron | τὼ κομάρω tṑ komárō | τοὺς κομάρους toùs komárous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόμαρε kómare | κομάρω komárō | κόμαροι kómaroi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Latin: comaron
Further reading
- κόμαρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόμαρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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