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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Pre-Greek. This term is potentially a cognate of Danish hummer, Old Norse humarr (“lobster”) (which is the source of French homard).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kám.ma.ros/ → /ˈkam.ma.ros/ → /ˈka.ma.ros/
Noun
κᾰ́μμᾰρος • (kámmaros) m (genitive κᾰμμᾰ́ρου); second declension
- a kind of lobster or shrimp
- (medicine) a kind of aconite (used as a cooling medicine)
- larkspur, Consolida ajacis (syn. Delphinium ajacis)
- mandrake, Mandragora officinarum
Declension
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κάμμαρος 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 631
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