κῶμα
See also: κώμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Probably related to κεῖμαι (keîmai, “I lie”), κοιμάω (koimáō, “I lay”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ- (compare Latin incumbere (“to lie down”), English coomb and Old English cumb (“hollow; narrow valley”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɔ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.ma/
Noun
κῶμα • (kôma) n (genitive κώματος); third declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κῶμᾰ tò kôma |
τὼ κώμᾰτε tṑ kṓmate |
τᾰ̀ κώμᾰτᾰ tà kṓmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κώμᾰτος toû kṓmatos |
τοῖν κωμᾰ́τοιν toîn kōmátoin |
τῶν κωμᾰ́των tôn kōmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κώμᾰτῐ tôi kṓmati |
τοῖν κωμᾰ́τοιν toîn kōmátoin |
τοῖς κώμᾰσῐ / κώμᾰσῐν toîs kṓmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κῶμᾰ tò kôma |
τὼ κώμᾰτε tṑ kṓmate |
τᾰ̀ κώμᾰτᾰ tà kṓmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῶμᾰ kôma |
κώμᾰτε kṓmate |
κώμᾰτᾰ kṓmata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Armenian: կոմա (koma)
- Azerbaijani: 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, →ISBN
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