χλαμύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Semitic, compare Hebrew גְּלוֹם (glōm, “wrap, mantle, cloak”), Late Babylonian 𒌆𒄖𒇷𒉡 (TUG₂.gu-li-nu /⁠gulīnu, gulēnu, gulānu⁠/, “over-cloak, coat”) likely a West-Semitic loan, Aramaic גְלִימָא (glīmā, “wrap, mantle, cloak”), whence also χλᾰνῐ́ς (khlanís, “upper-garment of wool”), χλαῖνᾰ (khlaîna, “upper-garment, cloak, wrapper”); innovating the δ-stem.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰla.mýs/ → /xlaˈmys/ → /xlaˈmis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰla.mýs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰlaˈmys/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /xlaˈmys/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /xlaˈmys/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /xlaˈmis/

Noun

χλᾰμῠ́ς • (khlamús) f (genitive χλᾰμῠ́δος); third declension

1. cloak, robe, mantle (especially a military or royal cloak)

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ χλᾰμῠ́ς; τῆς χλᾰμῠ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χλᾰμῠ́ς hē khlamús	τὼ χλᾰμῠ́δε tṑ khlamúde	αἱ χλᾰμῠ́δες hai khlamúdes
Genitive	τῆς χλᾰμῠ́δος tês khlamúdos	τοῖν χλᾰμῠ́δοιν toîn khlamúdoin	τῶν χλᾰμῠ́δων tôn khlamúdōn
Dative	τῇ χλᾰμῠ́δῐ têi khlamúdi	τοῖν χλᾰμῠ́δοιν toîn khlamúdoin	ταῖς χλᾰμῠ́σῐ / χλᾰμῠ́σῐν taîs khlamúsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν χλᾰμῠ́δᾰ tḕn khlamúda	τὼ χλᾰμῠ́δε tṑ khlamúde	τᾱ̀ς χλᾰμῠ́δᾰς tā̀s khlamúdas
Vocative	χλᾰμῠ́ς khlamús	χλᾰμῠ́δε khlamúde	χλᾰμῠ́δες khlamúdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• Latin: chlamys, sagochlamys (< *σᾰγοχλᾰμῠ́ς (*sagokhlamús))
  • English: chlamys
• Russian: хлами́да m (xlamída)

Further reading

• “χλαμύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χλαμύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χλαμύς 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
• G5511 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cape idem, page 111.
  • cloak idem, page 138.
  • mantle idem, page 512.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χλαῖνα [f.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1635-1636
• Szemerényi, Oswald (1974) “The origins of the Greek lexicon: Ex Oriente Lux”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies‎^[2], volume 94, →DOI, page 148