κόμμι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kóm.mi/ → /ˈkom.mi/ → /ˈko.mi/

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

Noun

κόμμῐ • (kómmi) n (genitive κόμμεως); third declension

1. gum, obtained from babul (Vachellia nilotica)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κόμμῐ; τοῦ κόμμεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmi	τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei	τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tà kómmē / kómmea
Genitive	τοῦ κόμμεως toû kómmeōs	τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin	τῶν κόμμεων tôn kómmeōn
Dative	τῷ κόμμει tôi kómmei	τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin	τοῖς κόμμεσῐ / κόμμεσῐν toîs kómmesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmi	τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei	τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tà kómmē / kómmea
Vocative	κόμμῐ kómmi	κόμμει kómmei	κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ kómmē / kómmea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κομμίδιον (kommídion)
• κομμίζω (kommízō)
• κομμιώδης (kommiṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Aramaic: (“gum particularly of acacia”)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קוֹמָּא (qommā), קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)

  Classical Syriac: ܩܘܡܐ (qommā), ܩܡܘܣ (qammūs), ܩܡܘܨ (qammūṣ), ܩܡܘܙ (qammūz)

  • → Amharic: ኮማ (koma, “a kind of large Ferula resembling Ferula communis subsp. communis from the leaves of which also cake is baken”).
  • → Persian: کما (komâ, kamâ, “various Ferula and the gum thereof”)
• → Middle Hebrew: קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)
• → Latin: cummis, gummis, commis, cummi, gummi, commi (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κόμμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόμμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόμμι 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 κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”),

qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).

Noun

κόμμι • (kómmi) n (plural κόμμεα)

1. rubber latex

Declension

Declension of κόμμι

	singular	plural
nominative	κόμμι •	κόμμεα •
genitive	κόμμεος •	κομμέων •
accusative	κόμμι •	κόμμεα •
vocative	κόμμι •	κόμμεα •