κόρυμβος

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of κορυφή (koruphḗ).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.rym.bos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.rym.bos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.rym.bos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.rym.bos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.rim.bos/

Noun

κόρυμβος • (kórumbos) m (genitive κορύμβου); second declension

(nautical) uppermost point of a ship
top of a mountain
(botany) cluster of the ivy fruit

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόρυμβος; τοῦ κορύμβου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόρυμβος ho kórumbos	τὼ κορύμβω tṑ korúmbō	οἱ κόρυμβοι hoi kórumboi
Genitive	τοῦ κορύμβου toû korúmbou	τοῖν κορύμβοιν toîn korúmboin	τῶν κορύμβων tôn korúmbōn
Dative	τῷ κορύμβῳ tôi korúmbōi	τοῖν κορύμβοιν toîn korúmboin	τοῖς κορύμβοις toîs korúmbois
Accusative	τὸν κόρυμβον tòn kórumbon	τὼ κορύμβω tṑ korúmbō	τοὺς κορύμβους toùs korúmbous
Vocative	κόρυμβε kórumbe	κορύμβω korúmbō	κόρυμβοι kórumboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

κορυμβάς (korumbás)
κορύμβη (korúmbē)
κορυμβίας (korumbías)
κορύμβιον (korúmbion)
κορυμβίτης (korumbítēs)
κορυμβοειδής (korumboeidḗs)
κορυμβόομαι (korumbóomai)
κορυμβοφόρος (korumbophóros)
κορυμβώδης (korumbṓdēs)

Descendants

→ Latin: corymbus

Further reading

“κόρυμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κόρυμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κόρυμβος 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

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from French corymbe, from Latin corymbus, from Ancient Greek κόρυμβος (kórumbos).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈko.ɾiɱ.vos/

Noun

κόρυμβος • (kórymvos) m (plural κόρυμβοι)

(botany) cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	κόρυμβος (kórymvos)	κόρυμβοι (kórymvoi)
genitive	κορύμβου (korýmvou)	κορύμβων (korýmvon)
accusative	κόρυμβο (kórymvo)	κορύμβους (korýmvous)
vocative	κόρυμβε (kórymve)	κόρυμβοι (kórymvoi)

Further reading

κόρυμβος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

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