κάγκαμον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰ́γκᾰλον (kắnkălon)

Etymology

From an Oriental source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /káŋ.ka.mon/ → /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/ → /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /káŋ.ka.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ka.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/

Noun

κᾰ́γκᾰμον • (kắnkămon) n (genitive κᾰγκᾰ́μου); second declension

1. bisabol, a gum produced by the plant Commiphora kataf

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κᾰ́γκᾰμον; τοῦ κᾰγκᾰ́μου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κᾰ́γκᾰμον tò kắnkămon	τὼ κᾰγκᾰ́μω tṑ kănkắmō	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́γκᾰμᾰ tằ kắnkămă
Genitive	τοῦ κᾰγκᾰ́μου toû kănkắmou	τοῖν κᾰγκᾰ́μοιν toîn kănkắmoin	τῶν κᾰγκᾰ́μων tôn kănkắmōn
Dative	τῷ κᾰγκᾰ́μῳ tôi kănkắmōi	τοῖν κᾰγκᾰ́μοιν toîn kănkắmoin	τοῖς κᾰγκᾰ́μοις toîs kănkắmois
Accusative	τὸ κᾰ́γκᾰμον tò kắnkămon	τὼ κᾰγκᾰ́μω tṑ kănkắmō	τᾰ̀ κᾰ́γκᾰμᾰ tằ kắnkămă
Vocative	κᾰ́γκᾰμον kắnkămon	κᾰγκᾰ́μω kănkắmō	κᾰ́γκᾰμᾰ kắnkămă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cancamum

Further reading

• “κάγκαμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάγκαμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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