κάγκαμον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κάγκαλον (kánkalon)
Etymology
From an Oriental source.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /káŋ.ka.mon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ.ka.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
Noun
κάγκαμον • (kánkamon) n (genitive καγκάμου); second declension
- bisabol, a gum produced by the plant Commiphora kataf
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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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