κιννάμωμον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κίνναμον (kínnamon), κινάμωμον (kinámōmon)

Etymology

According to Herodotus, from Phoenician; compare Hebrew קִנָּמוֹן (kinamón, “cinnamon”). The ending was modelled on that of ἄμωμον (ámōmon, “black cardamom”), or due to folk etymology, on that of ἄμωμος (ámōmos, “blameless”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kin.ná.mɔː.mon/ → /cinˈna.mo.mon/ → /ciˈna.mo.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kin.ná.mɔː.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kinˈna.mo.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cinˈna.mo.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cinˈna.mo.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈna.mo.mon/

Noun

κῐννᾰ́μωμον • (kinnámōmon) n (genitive κῐννᾰμώμου); second declension

1. Chinese cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κῐννᾰ́μωμον; τοῦ κῐννᾰμώμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῐννᾰ́μωμον tò kinnámōmon	τὼ κῐννᾰμώμω tṑ kinnamṓmō	τᾰ̀ κῐννᾰ́μωμᾰ tà kinnámōma
Genitive	τοῦ κῐννᾰμώμου toû kinnamṓmou	τοῖν κῐννᾰμώμοιν toîn kinnamṓmoin	τῶν κῐννᾰμώμων tôn kinnamṓmōn
Dative	τῷ κῐννᾰμώμῳ tôi kinnamṓmōi	τοῖν κῐννᾰμώμοιν toîn kinnamṓmoin	τοῖς κῐννᾰμώμοις toîs kinnamṓmois
Accusative	τὸ κῐννᾰ́μωμον tò kinnámōmon	τὼ κῐννᾰμώμω tṑ kinnamṓmō	τᾰ̀ κῐννᾰ́μωμᾰ tà kinnámōma
Vocative	κῐννᾰ́μωμον kinnámōmon	κῐννᾰμώμω kinnamṓmō	κῐννᾰ́μωμᾰ kinnámōma
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κινναμολόγος (kinnamológos)
• κινναμωμίζω (kinnamōmízō)
• κινναμώμινος (kinnamṓminos)
• κινναμωμίς (kinnamōmís)
• κινναμωμοφόρος (kinnamōmophóros)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: cinnamōmum (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: կինամոմոն (kinamomon), կինամոն (kinamon)
  • → Armenian: կինամոն (kinamon), կինամոմոն (kinamomon) (learned)
  • →? Old Georgian: კინამოჲ (ḳinamoy)
    • Middle Georgian: კინამო (ḳinamo)
      • Georgian: კინამო (ḳinamo)

Further reading

• “κιννάμωμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κιννάμωμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κιννάμωμον 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
• Boisacq, Émile (1916) “κιννάμωμον”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 457
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 107–108 is explicit that he reckons the explanation as “Chinese ἄμωμον (ámōmon)” erroneous or a secondary connection