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Ancient Greek
Etymology
An Oriental loanword of lost provenance, also found as Classical Syriac ܚܡܵܡܵܐ (ḥəmāmā) → Arabic حَمَامَا (ḥamāmā).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.mɔː.mon/ → /ˈa.mo.mon/ → /ˈa.mo.mon/
Noun
ἄμωμον • (ámōmon) n (genitive ἀμώμου); second declension
- black cardamom (Amomum subulatum)
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Further reading
- “ἄμωμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἄμωμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄμωμον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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
- Lagarde, Paul de (1889) Übersicht über die im Aramäischen, Arabischen und Hebräischen übliche Bildung der Nomina (Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen; 35) (in German), Göttingen: Dieterichsche Verlags-Buchhandlung, page 205 footnote asterisk