κυδοιμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Given the unusual formation, according to Beekes, the word is without a doubt Pre-Greek. Frisk and Chantraine discuss it under κυδάζω (kudázō, “to insult”), but there appears to be no semantic relation.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.doi̯.mós/ → /cy.ðyˈmos/ → /ci.ðiˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.doi̯.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ky.dyˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cy.ðyˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cy.ðyˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ci.ðiˈmos/

Noun

κῠδοιμός • (kudoimós) m (genitive κῠδοιμοῦ); second declension

1. din of battle, uproar, hubbub

   Synonyms: μόθος (móthos), ὅμᾰδος (hómados)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠδοιμός; τοῦ κῠδοιμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠδοιμός ho kudoimós	τὼ κῠδοιμώ tṑ kudoimṓ	οἱ κῠδοιμοί hoi kudoimoí
Genitive	τοῦ κῠδοιμοῦ toû kudoimoû	τοῖν κῠδοιμοῖν toîn kudoimoîn	τῶν κῠδοιμῶν tôn kudoimôn
Dative	τῷ κῠδοιμῷ tôi kudoimôi	τοῖν κῠδοιμοῖν toîn kudoimoîn	τοῖς κῠδοιμοῖς toîs kudoimoîs
Accusative	τὸν κῠδοιμόν tòn kudoimón	τὼ κῠδοιμώ tṑ kudoimṓ	τοὺς κῠδοιμούς toùs kudoimoús
Vocative	κῠδοιμέ kudoimé	κῠδοιμώ kudoimṓ	κῠδοιμοί kudoimoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κῠδοιμέω (kudoiméō)

Further reading

• “κυδοιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κυδοιμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κυδοιμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κυδοιμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κυδοιμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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