κορμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kormós, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”), the same root of κείρω (keírō, “to cut”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kor.mós/ → /korˈmos/ → /korˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kor.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /korˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /korˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /korˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /korˈmos/

Noun

κορμός • (kormós) m (genitive κορμοῦ); second declension

1. (botany) trunk of a tree (with the boughs lopped off)

   Synonym: ξηνός (xēnós)

2. log of timber

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κορμός; τοῦ κορμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κορμός ho kormós	τὼ κορμώ tṑ kormṓ	οἱ κορμοί hoi kormoí
Genitive	τοῦ κορμοῦ toû kormoû	τοῖν κορμοῖν toîn kormoîn	τῶν κορμῶν tôn kormôn
Dative	τῷ κορμῷ tôi kormôi	τοῖν κορμοῖν toîn kormoîn	τοῖς κορμοῖς toîs kormoîs
Accusative	τὸν κορμόν tòn kormón	τὼ κορμώ tṑ kormṓ	τοὺς κορμούς toùs kormoús
Vocative	κορμέ kormé	κορμώ kormṓ	κορμοί kormoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κορμηδόν (kormēdón)
• κορμολογῐ́ᾱ (kormologíā)
• κορμᾰ́ζω (kormázō)
• κορμῐ́ον (kormíon)

 

Descendants

• Greek: κορμός (kormós)

Further reading

• “κορμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κορμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κορμός 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κορμός (kormós).

Noun

κορμός • (kormós) m (plural κορμοί)

1. trunk of tree
2. torso
3. trunk (main part of body) of animal
4. main body of something
5. dessert in a log shape

Declension

Declension of κορμός

	singular	plural
nominative	κορμός •	κορμοί •
genitive	κορμού •	κορμών •
accusative	κορμό •	κορμούς •
vocative	κορμέ •	κορμοί •

See also

• σώμα n (sóma, “body”)