κάματος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of κάμνω (kámnō, “to be weary”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.ma.tos/ → /ˈka.ma.tos/ → /ˈka.ma.tos/

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

Noun

κάμᾰτος • (kámatos) m (genitive κᾰμάτου); second declension

1. toil, trouble
2. weariness, exhaustion, fatigue, tiredness
3. product of toil; thing made
4. (Byzantine, finance) interest (price of credit)

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κάμᾰτος; τοῦ καμᾰ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κάμᾰτος ho kámatos	τὼ καμᾰ́τω tṑ kamátō	οἱ κάμᾰτοι hoi kámatoi
Genitive	τοῦ καμᾰ́του toû kamátou	τοῖν καμᾰ́τοιν toîn kamátoin	τῶν καμᾰ́των tôn kamátōn
Dative	τῷ καμᾰ́τῳ tôi kamátōi	τοῖν καμᾰ́τοιν toîn kamátoin	τοῖς καμᾰ́τοις toîs kamátois
Accusative	τὸν κάμᾰτον tòn kámaton	τὼ καμᾰ́τω tṑ kamátō	τοὺς καμᾰ́τους toùs kamátous
Vocative	κάμᾰτε kámate	καμᾰ́τω kamátō	κάμᾰτοι kámatoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀκάματος (akámatos)

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: kamatë
• → Macedonian: камата (kamata)
• → Romanian: camătă
• → Serbo-Croatian: kamata

Further reading

• “κάματος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κάματος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κάματος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κάματος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• “κάματος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • exhaustion idem, page 291.
  • fatigue idem, page 310.
  • labour idem, page 472.
  • prostration idem, page 653.
  • tedium idem, page 859.
  • toil idem, page 880.
  • trouble idem, page 897.
  • weariness idem, page 970.
  • work idem, page 988.