κοδομεύς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Comparison with Proto-Slavic *čadъ (“smoke, fumes”) cannot be upheld. A similar meaning is found in κίδναι (kídnai, “barley roasted on the countryside”), but this has a different vowel. Probably Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.do.měu̯s/ → /ko.ðoˈmeɸs/ → /ko.ðoˈmefs/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.do.měu̯s/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.doˈmews/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.ðoˈmeɸs/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.ðoˈmefs/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.ðoˈmefs/

Noun

κοδομεύς • (kodomeús) m (genitive κοδομέως); third declension

1. one who roasts barley

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κοδομεύς; τοῦ κοδομέως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κοδομεύς ho kodomeús	τὼ κοδομῆ tṑ kodomê	οἱ κοδομῆς / κοδομεῖς hoi kodomês / kodomeîs
Genitive	τοῦ κοδομέως toû kodoméōs	τοῖν κοδομέοιν toîn kodoméoin	τῶν κοδομέων tôn kodoméōn
Dative	τῷ κοδομεῖ tôi kodomeî	τοῖν κοδομέοιν toîn kodoméoin	τοῖς κοδομεῦσῐ / κοδομεῦσῐν toîs kodomeûsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν κοδομέᾱ tòn kodoméā	τὼ κοδομῆ tṑ kodomê	τοὺς κοδομέᾱς toùs kodoméās
Vocative	κοδομεῦ kodomeû	κοδομῆ kodomê	κοδομῆς / κοδομεῖς kodomês / kodomeîs
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κοδομείᾱ (kodomeíā)
• κοδομεῖον (kodomeîon)
• κοδομεύτρῐᾰ (kodomeútrĭă)
• κοδομεύω (kodomeúō)

Further reading

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