ἄμωμον
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An Oriental loanword of lost provenience, also found as Classical Syriac ܚܡܵܡܵܐ (ḥəmāmā) → Arabic حَمَامَا (ḥamāmā).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.mɔː.mon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.mo.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.mo.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.mo.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.mo.mon/
Noun
[edit]ἄμωμον • (ámōmon) n (genitive ἀμώμου); second declension
Inflection
[edit]| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ἄμωμον tò ámōmon |
τὼ ἀμώμω tṑ amṓmō |
τᾰ̀ ἄμωμᾰ tà ámōma | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀμώμου toû amṓmou |
τοῖν ἀμώμοιν toîn amṓmoin |
τῶν ἀμώμων tôn amṓmōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀμώμῳ tôi amṓmōi |
τοῖν ἀμώμοιν toîn amṓmoin |
τοῖς ἀμώμοις toîs amṓmois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ἄμωμον tò ámōmon |
τὼ ἀμώμω tṑ amṓmō |
τᾰ̀ ἄμωμᾰ tà ámōma | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἄμωμον ámōmon |
ἀμώμω amṓmō |
ἄμωμᾰ ámōma | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: amōmum
Further reading
[edit]- “ἄμωμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄμωμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄμωμον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- 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
- Lagarde, Paul de (1889) Übersicht über die im Aramäischen, Arabischen und Hebräischen übliche Bildung der Nomina (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen; 35)[1] (in German), Göttingen: Dieterichsche Verlags-Buchhandlung, page 205 footnote asterisk