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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Traditionally derived from a Proto-Indo-European *deh₂mo- (“oil, fluid”), from *deh₂- (“to flow”), whence Old Armenian տամուկ (tamuk, “humid, moist”), Albanian dhjamë (“fat”), Sanskrit दानु (dānu, “fluid, drop”). Beekes is skeptical of the connection to the Albanian and Sanskrit (and doesn't mention the Armenian), but does note Demiraj's theory that the terms may be from a shared non-Indo-European substrate.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛː.mós/ → /ðiˈmos/ → /ðiˈmos/
Noun
δημός • (dēmós) m (genitive δημοῦ); second declension
- fat
Declension
References
Further reading
- “δημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- δημός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δημός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δημός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.