κάλαμος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- καλάμη (kalámē)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱolh₂mos via a zero-grade variant *ḱl̥h₂mos, or (according to Beekes) independently thematicized from an original ablauting paradigm *ḱólh₂-m̥ ~ *ḱl̥h₂-ém-. Cognates include Latin culmus, Russian соло́ма (solóma), Old Norse halmr and Old English healm (English haulm).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.la.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.la.mos/
Noun
κᾰ́λᾰμος • (kálamos) m (genitive κᾰλᾰ́μου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κᾰ́λᾰμος ho kálamos |
τὼ κᾰλᾰ́μω tṑ kalámō |
οἱ κᾰ́λᾰμοι hoi kálamoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κᾰλᾰ́μου toû kalámou |
τοῖν κᾰλᾰ́μοιν toîn kalámoin |
τῶν κᾰλᾰ́μων tôn kalámōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κᾰλᾰ́μῳ tôi kalámōi |
τοῖν κᾰλᾰ́μοιν toîn kalámoin |
τοῖς κᾰλᾰ́μοις toîs kalámois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κᾰ́λᾰμον tòn kálamon |
τὼ κᾰλᾰ́μω tṑ kalámō |
τοὺς κᾰλᾰ́μους toùs kalámous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κᾰ́λᾰμε kálame |
κᾰλᾰ́μω kalámō |
κᾰ́λᾰμοι kálamoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- καλαμάγρωστις (kalamágrōstis)
- καλάμινος (kaláminos)
- καλάμιον (kalámion)
- κᾰλᾰμῐ́ς (kalamís)
- κᾰλᾰμῐ́σκος (kalamískos)
- κᾰλᾰμογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (kalamographíā)
- καλαμοθήκη (kalamothḗkē)
Descendants
- → Greek: κάλαμος (kálamos) (learned)
- → Arabic: قَلَم (qalam)
- → Old Georgian: კალამი (ḳalami)
- Georgian: კალამი (ḳalami)
- → Hebrew: קולמוס (kulmus), קלמרין (kalmarin) (> קלמר (kalmar))
- → Latin: calamus (see there for further descendants)
- → Sanskrit: कलम (kalama)
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάλαμος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 621–622
- “κάλαμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κάλαμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κάλαμος 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
- “κάλαμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2563 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- κάλαμος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
Learnedly, borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos);[1] doublet of καλάμι (kalámi), inherited through Mediaeval Greek from the Hellenistic diminutive καλάμιον f (kalámion). Also a doublet of καλέμι (kalémi), which was borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قلم (kalém).[2] Also see καλαμάρι (kalamári).
Pronunciation
Noun
κάλαμος • (kálamos) m (plural κάλαμοι)
Declension
Declension of κάλαμος
Related terms
See also
- καλάμη f (kalámē) (ancient feminine form)
References
- ^ κάλαμος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάλαμος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 621–622
Further reading
- κάλαμος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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