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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of κάμνω (kámnō, “to be weary”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ká.ma.tos/ → /ˈka.ma.tos/ → /ˈka.ma.tos/
Noun
κάμᾰτος • (kámatos) m (genitive κᾰμάτου); second declension
- toil, trouble
- weariness, exhaustion, fatigue, tiredness
- product of toil; thing made
- (Byzantine, finance) interest (price of credit)
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Further reading
- “κάματος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κάματος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κάματος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- κάματος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “κάματος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.