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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée compares the word with ἀμάκιον (amákion). According to Beekes, the suffix "-ακ-" is highly frequent in Pre-Greek, and he considers the word to derive from such, rejecting traditional connections to Proto-Germanic *hamô (“rod, shaft”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ká.maks/ → /ˈka.maks/ → /ˈka.maks/
Noun
κάμαξ • (kámax) f (genitive κάμᾰκος); third declension
- vine pole, prop
3rd century BCE, Leonidas of Tarentum, chapter 731, in Greek Anthology, Book VII:ἄμπελος ὣς ἤδη κάμακι στηρίζομαι αὐτῷ σκηπανίῳ- ámpelos hṑs ḗdē kámaki stērízomai autôi skēpaníōi
- I am already supported only by a prop like a vine
- any pole or shaft
- tiller
- (in the plural) steering paddles
- tent pole
- perch for fowls
Inflection
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References
Further reading
- “κάμαξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάμαξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κάμαξ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011