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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Has been compared to Proto-Germanic *haimaz, Lithuanian káimas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̌ː.mɛː/ → /ˈko.mi/ → /ˈko.mi/
Noun
κώμη • (kṓmē) f (genitive κώμης); first declension
- an unwalled village or country town
- a quarter or ward of a city
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “κώμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κώμη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κώμη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2968 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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