κόρυμβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of κορυφή (koruphḗ).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.rym.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.rym.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.rym.bos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.rym.bos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.rim.bos/
Noun
κόρυμβος • (kórumbos) m (genitive κορύμβου); second declension
- (nautical) uppermost point of a ship
- top of a mountain
- (botany) cluster of the ivy fruit
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κόρυμβος; τοῦ κορύμβου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόρυμβος ho kórumbos | τὼ κορύμβω tṑ korúmbō | οἱ κόρυμβοι hoi kórumboi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κορύμβου toû korúmbou | τοῖν κορύμβοιν toîn korúmboin | τῶν κορύμβων tôn korúmbōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κορύμβῳ tôi korúmbōi | τοῖν κορύμβοιν toîn korúmboin | τοῖς κορύμβοις toîs korúmbois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόρυμβον tòn kórumbon | τὼ κορύμβω tṑ korúmbō | τοὺς κορύμβους toùs korúmbous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόρυμβε kórumbe | κορύμβω korúmbō | κόρυμβοι kórumboi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κορυμβάς (korumbás)
- κορύμβη (korúmbē)
- κορυμβίας (korumbías)
- κορύμβιον (korúmbion)
- κορυμβίτης (korumbítēs)
- κορυμβοειδής (korumboeidḗs)
- κορυμβόομαι (korumbóomai)
- κορυμβοφόρος (korumbophóros)
- κορυμβώδης (korumbṓdēs)
Descendants
- Latin: corymbus
Further reading
- κόρυμβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόρυμβος 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, →ISBN