κημός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾱμός (kāmós) — Doric

Etymology

Unexplained. The connection with Armenian քամեմ (kʻamem, “to press (out)”) is formally possible but it is incompatible with the probable basic meaning of the Greek word, wicker. The same holds with other supposed cognates like Lithuanian kāmanos (“harness”), Russian ком (kom, “clump”) and Middle High German hemmen (“to restrain, hamper”). Furnée suggests, instead, a derivation from a Pre-Greek source common to χάβος (khábos) and χαμόν (khamón).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛː.mós/ → /ciˈmos/ → /ciˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛː.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ke̝ˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈmos/

Noun

κημός • (kēmós) m (genitive κημοῦ); second declension

1. muzzle put on a led horse

   Synonyms: πνιγεύς (pnigeús), φιμός (phimós)

2. nosebag for horses

   Synonym: χιλωτήρ (khilōtḗr)

3. cloth used by bakers to cover the nose and the mouth
4. weely, a wicker vessel
5. funnel shaped top of the voting urn
6. female ornament

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κημός; τοῦ κημοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κημός ho kēmós	τὼ κημώ tṑ kēmṓ	οἱ κημοί hoi kēmoí
Genitive	τοῦ κημοῦ toû kēmoû	τοῖν κημοῖν toîn kēmoîn	τῶν κημῶν tôn kēmôn
Dative	τῷ κημῷ tôi kēmôi	τοῖν κημοῖν toîn kēmoîn	τοῖς κημοῖς toîs kēmoîs
Accusative	τὸν κημόν tòn kēmón	τὼ κημώ tṑ kēmṓ	τοὺς κημούς toùs kēmoús
Vocative	κημέ kēmé	κημώ kēmṓ	κημοί kēmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κημόω (kēmóō)
• κήμωσις (kḗmōsis)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: cāmus

Further reading

• “κημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κημός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κημός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 688–689