Κάδμος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

Of Pre-Greek origin,[1] possibly Semitic (often thought to be Phoenician for “man from the east”), from Proto-Semitic *q-d-m (“to precede, come before”), with influence from κέκασμαι (kékasmai, “I have excelled, shined”). Compare Classical Syriac ܩܕܡ (“to come before”), Arabic قدم, Hebrew קדם.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Κᾰ́δμος • (Kádmos) m (genitive Κᾰ́δμου); second declension

  1. Cadmus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Κᾰ́δμος; τοῦ Κᾰ́δμου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Κᾰ́δμος
ho Kádmos
Genitive τοῦ Κᾰ́δμου
toû Kádmou
Dative τῷ Κᾰ́δμῳ
tôi Kádmōi
Accusative τὸν Κᾰ́δμον
tòn Kádmon
Vocative Κᾰ́δμε
Kádme
Notes:

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: Κάδμος (Kádmos)
  • Latin: Cadmus

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “Κάδμος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 614

Further reading

  • “Κάδμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Κάδμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Κάδμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • “Κάδμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,004
  • Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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