Κάδμος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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Of Pre-Greek origin,[1] possibly Semitic (often thought to be Phoenician for “man from the east”), from Proto-Semitic *q-d-m (to precede, come before), with influence from κέκασμαι (kékasmai, I have excelled, shined). Compare Classical Syriac ܩܕܡ (to come before), Arabic قدم, Hebrew קדם.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Κᾰ́δμος (Kádmosm (genitive Κᾰ́δμου); second declension

  1. Cadmus

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: Κάδμος (Kádmos)
  • Latin: Cadmus

References

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  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Κάδμος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 614

Further reading

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  • Κάδμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Κάδμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Κάδμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Κάδμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN