κέμμορ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Furnée, from the same Pre-Greek root of κάμπη (kámpē, “sea-monster”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kém.mor/ → /ˈcem.mor/ → /ˈce.mor/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kém.mor/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkem.mor/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcem.mor/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcem.mor/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈce.mor/

Noun

κέμμορ • (kémmor)

1. Hesychius gives the definition as: μέγα κῆτος (méga kêtos, literally “large sea-monster”).

Further reading

• “κέμμορ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: κ