κάγκαμον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κάγκαλον (kánkalon)

Etymology

From an Oriental source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /káŋ.ka.mon/ → /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/ → /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /káŋ.ka.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ka.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/

Noun

κάγκαμον • (kánkamon) n (genitive καγκάμου); second declension

1. bisabol, a gum produced by the plant Commiphora kataf

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κάγκαμον; τοῦ καγκάμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κάγκαμον tò kánkamon	τὼ καγκάμω tṑ kankámō	τᾰ̀ κάγκαμᾰ tà kánkama
Genitive	τοῦ καγκάμου toû kankámou	τοῖν καγκάμοιν toîn kankámoin	τῶν καγκάμων tôn kankámōn
Dative	τῷ καγκάμῳ tôi kankámōi	τοῖν καγκάμοιν toîn kankámoin	τοῖς καγκάμοις toîs kankámois
Accusative	τὸ κάγκαμον tò kánkamon	τὼ καγκάμω tṑ kankámō	τᾰ̀ κάγκαμᾰ tà kánkama
Vocative	κάγκαμον kánkamon	καγκάμω kankámō	κάγκαμᾰ kánkama
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cancamum

Further reading

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