Κάδμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Of Pre-Greek origin, 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

 

• IPA^(key): /kád.mos/ → /ˈkað.mos/ → /ˈkað.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kád.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkad.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkað.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkað.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkað.mos/

Proper noun

Κᾰ́δμος • (Kádmos) m (genitive Κᾰ́δμου); second declension

1. Cadmus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κᾰ́δμος; τοῦ Κᾰ́δμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Κᾰ́δμος ho Kádmos
Genitive	τοῦ Κᾰ́δμου toû Kádmou
Dative	τῷ Κᾰ́δμῳ tôi Kádmōi
Accusative	τὸν Κᾰ́δμον tòn Kádmon
Vocative	Κᾰ́δμε Kádme
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Κᾰδμηΐς (Kadmēḯs)
• Κᾰδμείᾱ (Kadmeíā)
• Κᾰδμεῖος (Kadmeîos)

Descendants

• Greek: Κάδμος (Kádmos)
• Latin: Cadmus

Further reading

• “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