κόμμι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kóm.mi/ → /ˈkom.mi/ → /ˈko.mi/

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

Noun

κόμμῐ • (kómmi) n (genitive κόμμεως); third declension

1. gum, obtained from babul (Vachellia nilotica)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κόμμῐ; τοῦ κόμμεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmi	τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei	τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tà kómmē / kómmea
Genitive	τοῦ κόμμεως toû kómmeōs	τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin	τῶν κόμμεων tôn kómmeōn
Dative	τῷ κόμμει tôi kómmei	τοῖν κομμέοιν toîn komméoin	τοῖς κόμμεσῐ / κόμμεσῐν toîs kómmesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κόμμῐ tò kómmi	τὼ κόμμει tṑ kómmei	τᾰ̀ κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ tà kómmē / kómmea
Vocative	κόμμῐ kómmi	κόμμει kómmei	κόμμη / κόμμεᾰ kómmē / kómmea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κομμίδιον (kommídion)
• κομμίζω (kommízō)
• κομμιώδης (kommiṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• → Aramaic: (“gum particularly of acacia”)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: קוֹמָּא (qommā), קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)

  Classical Syriac: ܩܘܡܐ (qommā), ܩܡܘܣ (qammūs), ܩܡܘܨ (qammūṣ), ܩܡܘܙ (qammūz)

  • → Amharic: ኮማ (koma, “a kind of large Ferula resembling Ferula communis subsp. communis from the leaves of which also cake is baken”).
  • → Persian: کما (komâ, kamâ, “various Ferula and the gum thereof”)
• → Middle Hebrew: קוֹמּוֹס (qommōs)
• → Latin: cummis, gummis, commis, cummi, gummi, commi (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κόμμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόμμι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόμμι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κόμμι”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”),

qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).

Noun

κόμμι • (kómmi) n (plural κόμμεα)

1. rubber latex

Declension

Declension of κόμμι

	singular	plural
nominative	κόμμι (kómmi)	κόμμεα (kómmea)
genitive	κόμμεος (kómmeos)	κομμέων (komméon)
accusative	κόμμι (kómmi)	κόμμεα (kómmea)
vocative	κόμμι (kómmi)	κόμμεα (kómmea)