χαμαίμηλον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From χαμαί (khamaí, “near the ground”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰa.mǎi̯.mɛː.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰaˈmɛ.me̝.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xaˈmɛ.mi.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xaˈme.mi.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xaˈme.mi.lon/
Noun
χᾰμαίμηλον • (khamaímēlon) n (genitive χᾰμαιμήλου); second declension
- Roman camomile (Chamaemelum nobile)
Declension
Second declension of τὸ χᾰμαίμηλον; τοῦ χᾰμαιμήλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ χᾰμαίμηλον tò khamaímēlon | τὼ χᾰμαιμήλω tṑ khamaimḗlō | τᾰ̀ χᾰμαίμηλᾰ tà khamaímēla | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χᾰμαιμήλου toû khamaimḗlou | τοῖν χᾰμαιμήλοιν toîn khamaimḗloin | τῶν χᾰμαιμήλων tôn khamaimḗlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χᾰμαιμήλῳ tôi khamaimḗlōi | τοῖν χᾰμαιμήλοιν toîn khamaimḗloin | τοῖς χᾰμαιμήλοις toîs khamaimḗlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ χᾰμαίμηλον tò khamaímēlon | τὼ χᾰμαιμήλω tṑ khamaimḗlō | τᾰ̀ χᾰμαίμηλᾰ tà khamaímēla | ||||||||||
Vocative | χᾰμαίμηλον khamaímēlon | χᾰμαιμήλω khamaimḗlō | χᾰμαίμηλᾰ khamaímēla | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- χαμαιμήλινος (khamaimḗlinos)
Descendants
- Byzantine Greek: χαμόμηλον (khamómēlon)
- Greek: χαμομήλι (chamomíli)
- → Latin: chamaemēlon
- Catalan: camamilla
- → German: Kamille
- → Hungarian: kamilla
- Old French: camomille
- → Middle English: camamille
- English: camomile
- → Middle English: camamille
- → Translingual: Chamaemelum
Further reading
- “χαμαίμηλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χαμαίμηλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette