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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ- (compare Latin incumbō (“to lie down”), English coomb and Old English cumb (“hollow; narrow valley”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈko.ma/ → /ˈko.ma/
Noun
κῶμα • (kôma) n (genitive κώματος); third declension
- deep sleep, lethargy
- Synonyms: κᾰ́ρος (káros), νῶκᾰρ (nôkar)
- coma
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “κῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κῶμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κῶμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κῶμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- 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