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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ending like in ἰάλεμος (iálemos) and πόλεμος (pólemos). The word has been compared with καυαλός (kaualós, “speaking like an idiot”) and κόαλοι (kóaloi, “foreigners”), suggesting a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko.ǎː.le.mos/ → /koˈa.le.mos/ → /koˈa.le.mos/
Noun
κοᾱ́λεμος • (koā́lemos) m (genitive κοᾱλέμου); second declension
- stupid fellow, booby, blockhead
Inflection
Further reading
- “κοάλεμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κοάλεμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κοάλεμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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