ἄμωμον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

An Oriental loanword of lost provenience, also found as Classical Syriac ܚܡܵܡܵܐ (ḥəmāmā) → Arabic حَمَامَا (ḥamāmā).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /á.mɔː.mon/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo.mon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo.mon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo.mon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈa.mo.mon/

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Noun

ἄμωμον • (ámōmon) n (genitive ἀμώμου); second declension

black cardamom (Amomum subulatum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἄμωμον; τοῦ ἀμώμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄμωμον tò ámōmon	τὼ ἀμώμω tṑ amṓmō	τᾰ̀ ἄμωμᾰ tằ ámōmă
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 tằ ámōmă
Vocative	ἄμωμον ámōmon	ἀμώμω amṓmō	ἄμωμᾰ ámōmă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀμωμίς (amōmís)
ἀμωμίτης (amōmítēs)

Descendants

→ Latin: amōmum
- Catalan: amom
- French: amome
- Galician: amomo
- Italian: amomo
- Portuguese: amomo
- Spanish: amomo
- Translingual: Amomum
- → English: amomum

“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 (2006–2025)
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