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Ancient Greek
Etymology
κόπτω (kóptō) + -μα (-ma).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kóm.ma/ → /ˈkom.ma/ → /ˈko.ma/
Noun
κόμμᾰ • (kómma) n (genitive κόμμᾰτος); third declension
- a stamp or impression of a coin, coinage
- that which is cut off, piece
- chaff
- (rhetoric) a short clause
- a contusion
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “κόμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόμμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόμμα 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόμμα (kómma).
Noun
κόμμα • (kómma) n (plural κόμματα)
- (politics) political party
- (typography) a typographical symbol: “,”
- (grammar) the comma (used as a punctuation mark)
- Synonym: (in early Greek) υποστιγμή (ypostigmí)
- (mathematics) the decimal point
- 5,3 ― five point three
- €2.500,50 ― two thousand five hundred euros and fifty cents
- Synonym: υποδιαστολή (ypodiastolí)
Declension
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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κόμμα (kómma)
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κόμματα (kómmata)
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genitive
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κόμματος (kómmatos)
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κομμάτων (kommáton)
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accusative
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κόμμα (kómma)
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κόμματα (kómmata)
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vocative
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κόμμα (kómma)
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κόμματα (kómmata)
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Coordinate terms
- see also: Greek Punctuation and Greek alphabet (Diacritics)
Further reading