πομφός

πομφός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Cognate with πέμφιξ (pémphix, “pustule”) and πομφόλυξ (pomphólux, “blister, bubble”). According to Beekes, they are all Pre-Greek words.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pom.pʰós/ → /pomˈɸos/ → /pomˈfos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pom.pʰós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pomˈpʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /pomˈɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /pomˈfos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /pomˈfos/

Noun

πομφός • (pomphós) m (genitive πομφοῦ); second declension

1. (medicine) blister on the skin

   Synonyms: πομφόλῠξ (pomphólux), φλῠ́κταινᾰ (phlúktaina)

   • καταπίμπλαταιπομφῶν ― katapímplatai pomfῶn ― it is filled with 'blisters
        Hippocrates (460‑377 B.C.E.), De Morbis, Lib. II.)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ πομφός; τοῦ πομφοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ πομφός ho pomphós	τὼ πομφώ tṑ pomphṓ	οἱ πομφοί hoi pomphoí
Genitive	τοῦ πομφοῦ toû pomphoû	τοῖν πομφοῖν toîn pomphoîn	τῶν πομφῶν tôn pomphôn
Dative	τῷ πομφῷ tôi pomphôi	τοῖν πομφοῖν toîn pomphoîn	τοῖς πομφοῖς toîs pomphoîs
Accusative	τὸν πομφόν tòn pomphón	τὼ πομφώ tṑ pomphṓ	τοὺς πομφούς toùs pomphoús
Vocative	πομφέ pomphé	πομφώ pomphṓ	πομφοί pomphoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: πομφός (pomfós)
• → Italian: pomfo

Further reading

• “πομφός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πομφός 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

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πομφός.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poɱˈfos/

Noun

πομφός • (pomfós) m (plural πομφοί)

1. (medicine, formal) blister

Declension

declension of πομφός

case     \\     number	singular	plural
nominative	πομφός •	πομφοί •
genitive	πομφού •	πομφών •
accusative	πομφό •	πομφούς •
vocative	πομφέ •	πομφοί •

Synonyms

• πομφόλυγα f (pomfólyga) (formal)
• φουσκάλα f (fouskála)
• φλύκταινα f (flýktaina) (formal)

Related terms

• πομφόλυγα f (pomfólyga), πομφόλυγας m, Katharevousa: πομφόλυξ f
• πομφολυγώδης (pomfolygódis, “blistery”, adjective)
• πομφώδης (pomfódis, “blistery”, adjective)