κόμαρος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κόμαρον (kómaron), κύμαρος (kúmaros)

Etymology

Strömberg derives it from κόμη (kómē, “crown of a tree”) but Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.ma.ros/ → /ˈko.ma.ros/ → /ˈko.ma.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.ma.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ma.ros/

Noun

κόμᾰρος • (kómăros) m (genitive κομάρου); second declension

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόμᾰρος; τοῦ κομᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόμᾰρος ho kómăros	τὼ κομᾰ́ρω tṑ komắrō	οἱ κόμᾰροι hoi kómăroi
Genitive	τοῦ κομᾰ́ρου toû komắrou	τοῖν κομᾰ́ροιν toîn komắroin	τῶν κομᾰ́ρων tôn komắrōn
Dative	τῷ κομᾰ́ρῳ tôi komắrōi	τοῖν κομᾰ́ροιν toîn komắroin	τοῖς κομᾰ́ροις toîs komắrois
Accusative	τὸν κόμᾰρον tòn kómăron	τὼ κομᾰ́ρω tṑ komắrō	τοὺς κομᾰ́ρους toùs komắrous
Vocative	κόμᾰρε kómăre	κομᾰ́ρω komắrō	κόμᾰροι kómăroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κόμαρι (kómari), κόμμαρι (kómmari), κομμάρεως (kommáreōs), κόμαρις (kómaris), κώμαρις (kṓmaris), κόμαρον (kómaron, “a purple dye obtained from strawberry tree”)
• κομαρέα (komaréa), κουμαρέα (koumaréa)
• κομαροφάγος (komarophágos)

Descendants

• Koine Greek: κόμαρον n (kómaron, “strawberry tree fruit”)
  • Greek: κούμαρο n (koúmaro, “strawberry tree fruit”), κόμαρο (kómaro)
    • ⇒ Greek: κουμαριά f (koumariá, “strawberry tree”), κουραμιά (kouramiá)
      • → Bulgarian: кумарка f (kumarka, “strawberry tree”)
      • → Turkish: kumara (“strawberry tree”) (Izmir)
  • Pontic Greek: κομάρι (komári)

• → Latin: comaron n (“strawberry tree fruit”)

• → Sicilian: cacumbaru m (“strawberry tree”)

Further reading

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