κόμαρος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κόμαρον (kómaron), κύμαρος (kúmaros)

Etymology

Strömberg derives it from κόμη (kómē, “crown of a tree”) but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.ma.ros/ → /ˈko.ma.ros/ → /ˈko.ma.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.ma.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/

Noun

κόμᾰρος • (kómaros) m (genitive κομάρου); second declension

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόμᾰρος; τοῦ κομᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόμᾰρος ho kómaros	τὼ κομᾰ́ρω tṑ komárō	οἱ κόμᾰροι hoi kómaroi
Genitive	τοῦ κομᾰ́ρου toû komárou	τοῖν κομᾰ́ροιν toîn komároin	τῶν κομᾰ́ρων tôn komárōn
Dative	τῷ κομᾰ́ρῳ tôi komárōi	τοῖν κομᾰ́ροιν toîn komároin	τοῖς κομᾰ́ροις toîs komárois
Accusative	τὸν κόμᾰρον tòn kómaron	τὼ κομᾰ́ρω tṑ komárō	τοὺς κομᾰ́ρους toùs komárous
Vocative	κόμᾰρε kómare	κομᾰ́ρω komárō	κόμᾰροι kómaroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κόμαρι (kómari), κόμμαρι (kómmari), κομμάρεως (kommáreōs), κόμαρις (kómaris), κώμαρις (kṓmaris), κόμαρον (kómaron, “a purple dye obtained from strawberry tree”)
• κομαρέα (komaréa), κουμαρέα (koumaréa)
• κομαροφάγος (komarophágos)

Descendants

• Koine Greek: κόμαρον n (kómaron, “strawberry tree fruit”)
  • Greek: κούμαρο n (koúmaro, “strawberry tree fruit”), κόμαρο (kómaro)
    • ⇒ Greek: κουμαριά f (koumariá, “strawberry tree”), κουραμιά (kouramiá)
      • → Bulgarian: кумарка f (kumarka, “strawberry tree”)
      • → Turkish: kumara (“strawberry tree”) (Izmir)
  • Pontic Greek: κομάρι (komári)

• → Latin: comaron n (“strawberry tree fruit”)

• → Sicilian: cacumbaru m (“strawberry tree”)

Further reading

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