κάλαμος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥h₂mos, zero-grade variant of *ḱolh₂mos. Cognates include Latin culmus, Russian соло́ма (solóma), Old Norse halmr and Old English healm (English haulm).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.la.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mos/
Noun
κᾰ́λᾰμος • (kálamos) m (genitive κᾰλᾰ́μου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κᾰ́λᾰμος ho kálamos |
τὼ κᾰλᾰ́μω tṑ kalámō |
οἱ κᾰ́λᾰμοι hoi kálamoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰλᾰ́μου toû kalámou |
τοῖν κᾰλᾰ́μοιν toîn kalámoin |
τῶν κᾰλᾰ́μων tôn kalámōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰλᾰ́μῳ tôi kalámōi |
τοῖν κᾰλᾰ́μοιν toîn kalámoin |
τοῖς κᾰλᾰ́μοις toîs kalámois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κᾰ́λᾰμον tòn kálamon |
τὼ κᾰλᾰ́μω tṑ kalámō |
τοὺς κᾰλᾰ́μους toùs kalámous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́λᾰμε kálame |
κᾰλᾰ́μω kalámō |
κᾰ́λᾰμοι kálamoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: κάλαμος (kálamos)
- → Arabic: قَلَم (qalam)
- → Georgian: კალამი (ḳalami)
- → Hebrew: קולמוס (kulmus), קלמרין (kalmarin) (> קלמר (kalmar))
- → Latin: calamus
- → Sanskrit: कलम (kalama)
References
- “κάλαμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάλαμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάλαμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “κάλαμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2563 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κάλαμος 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Noun
κάλαμος • (kálamos) m (plural κάλαμοι)
Declension
Declension of κάλαμος
Related terms
- καλαμιά f (kalamiá, “reed”)
- καλαμάκι n (kalamáki, “small rod, skewer”)
- καλάμι n (kalámi, “reed, fishing rod, shin”)
Further reading
- κάλαμος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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