κῶμα

See also: κώμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably related to κεῖμαι (keîmai, “I lie”), κοιμάω (koimáō, “I lay”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈko.ma/ → /ˈko.ma/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̂ː.ma/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma/

Noun

κῶμα • (kôma) n (genitive κώματος); third declension

1. deep sleep
2. lethargy
3. coma

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κῶμα; τοῦ κώματος

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῶμα	τὼ κώματε	τᾰ̀ κώματᾰ
Genitive	τοῦ κώματος	τοῖν κωμάτοιν	τῶν κωμάτων
Dative	τῷ κώματῐ	τοῖν κωμάτοιν	τοῖς κώμασῐ
Accusative	τὸ κῶμα	τὼ κώματε	τᾰ̀ κώματᾰ
Vocative	κῶμα	κώματε	κώματᾰ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Armenian: կոմա (koma)
• Azeri: koma
• Belarusian: ко́ма (kóma)
• Bulgarian: ко́ма (kóma)
• Catalan: coma
• Czech: kóma
• Danish: koma
• Dutch: coma
• English: coma
• Estonian: kooma
• Finnish: kooma
• French: coma
• Georgian: კომა (ḳoma)
• German: Koma
• Greek: κώμα (kóma)
• Hindi: कोमा (komā)
• Hungarian: kóma
• Italian: coma
• Kazakh: кома (koma)
• Kyrgyz: кома (koma)
• Latvian: koma
• Lithuanian: koma
• Luxembourgish: Koma
• Macedonian: ко́ма (kóma)
• Norwegian Bokmål: koma
• Persian: کما‏ (komâ)
• Polish: koma
• Portuguese: coma
• Romanian: comă
• Russian: ко́ма (kóma)
• Serbo-Croatian koma
• Slovak: kóma
• Slovene: koma
• Spanish: coma
• Swedish: koma
• Tajik: кома (koma)
• Thai: โคม่า (koh-mâa)
• Turkish: koma
• Turkmen: koma
• Ukrainian: ко́ма (kóma)
• Urdu: کوما‏ (komā)
• Uzbek: koma
• Welsh: côma

References

• κῶμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κῶμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κῶμα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κῶμα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κῶμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κῶμα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• 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