κύμινον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀖𐀜 (ku-mi-no), borrowed from Semitic, compare Ge'ez ከሚን (kämin), ካሚን (kamin), ከሙን (kämun), ከሜን (kämen), Arabic كَمُّون (kammūn), Hebrew כַּמֹּון (kammōn), Aramaic כַּמֹּונָֹא / ܩܰܡܽܘܢܳܐ (kammōnā, “cumin”), ultimately from Akkadian 𒂵𒈬𒉡 (Ú.GAMUN /⁠kamūnu⁠/, “cumin”). Note also Old Armenian չաման (čʻaman).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ký.miː.non/ → /ˈcy.mi.non/ → /ˈci.mi.non/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ký.miː.non/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.mi.non/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.mi.non/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.mi.non/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.mi.non/

Noun

κύμῑνον • (kúmīnon) n (genitive κυμίνου); second declension

1. cumin

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κύμῑνον; τοῦ κυμῑ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κύμῑνον tò kúmīnon	τὼ κυμῑ́νω tṑ kumī́nō	τᾰ̀ κύμῑνᾰ tà kúmīna
Genitive	τοῦ κυμῑ́νου toû kumī́nou	τοῖν κυμῑ́νοιν toîn kumī́noin	τῶν κυμῑ́νων tôn kumī́nōn
Dative	τῷ κυμῑ́νῳ tôi kumī́nōi	τοῖν κυμῑ́νοιν toîn kumī́noin	τοῖς κυμῑ́νοις toîs kumī́nois
Accusative	τὸ κύμῑνον tò kúmīnon	τὼ κυμῑ́νω tṑ kumī́nō	τᾰ̀ κύμῑνᾰ tà kúmīna
Vocative	κύμῑνον kúmīnon	κυμῑ́νω kumī́nō	κύμῑνᾰ kúmīna
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κυμίνινος (kumíninos)
• κυμινοθήκη (kuminothḗkē)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: cumīnum (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κύμινον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κύμινον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κύμινον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2951 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Rosół, Rafał (2013) Frühe Semitische Lehnwörter im Griechischen (in German), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, pages 55–56