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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A derivation in -άς (-ás), probably from an o-stem *κέμος (*kémos, “hornless”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Compare Proto-Germanic *hindiz (“hind, doe”) and Lithuanian šmùlas (“without horn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ke.más/ → /ceˈmas/ → /ceˈmas/
Noun
κεμᾰ́ς • (kemás) f (genitive κεμᾰ́δος); third declension
- pricket, two-year-old deer
Declension
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Further reading
- “κεμάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κεμάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κεμάς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κεμάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κεμάς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN