κοάλεμος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ending like in ἰάλεμος (iálemos) and πόλεμος (pólemos). The word has been compared with καυαλός (kaualós, “speaking like an idiot”) and κόαλοι (kóaloi, “foreigners”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.ǎː.le.mos/ → /koˈa.le.mos/ → /koˈa.le.mos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.ǎː.le.mos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈa.le.mos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈa.le.mos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈa.le.mos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈa.le.mos/

Noun

κοᾱ́λεμος • (koā́lemos) m (genitive κοᾱλέμου); second declension

1. stupid fellow, booby, blockhead

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κοᾱ́λεμος; τοῦ κοᾱλέμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κοᾱ́λεμος ho koā́lemos	τὼ κοᾱλέμω tṑ koālémō	οἱ κοᾱ́λεμοι hoi koā́lemoi
Genitive	τοῦ κοᾱλέμου toû koālémou	τοῖν κοᾱλέμοιν toîn koālémoin	τῶν κοᾱλέμων tôn koālémōn
Dative	τῷ κοᾱλέμῳ tôi koālémōi	τοῖν κοᾱλέμοιν toîn koālémoin	τοῖς κοᾱλέμοις toîs koālémois
Accusative	τὸν κοᾱ́λεμον tòn koā́lemon	τὼ κοᾱλέμω tṑ koālémō	τοὺς κοᾱλέμους toùs koālémous
Vocative	κοᾱ́λεμε koā́leme	κοᾱλέμω koālémō	κοᾱ́λεμοι koā́lemoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κοάλεμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κοάλεμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κοάλεμος 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