κύμινον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀓𐀖𐀜 (ku-mi-no), borrowed from Semitic, compare Ge'ez ከሚን (kämin), ካሚን (kamin), ከሙን (kämun), ከሜን (kämen), Arabic كَمُّون (kammūn), Hebrew כַּמֹּון (kammōn), Aramaic כַּמֹּונָֹא / ܩܰܡܽܘܢܳܐ (kammōnā, “cumin”), ultimately from Akkadian 𒂵𒈬𒉡 (Ú.GAMUN /kamūnu/, “cumin”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ký.miː.non/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.mi.non/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈky.mi.non/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.mi.non/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.mi.non/
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κύμῑνον tò kúmīnon |
τὼ κυμῑ́νω tṑ kumī́nō |
τᾰ̀ κύμῑνᾰ tà kúmīna | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κυμῑ́νου toû kumī́nou |
τοῖν κυμῑ́νοιν toîn kumī́noin |
τῶν κυμῑ́νων tôn kumī́nōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κυμῑ́νῳ tôi kumī́nōi |
τοῖν κυμῑ́νοιν toîn kumī́noin |
τοῖς κυμῑ́νοις toîs kumī́nois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κύμῑνον tò kúmīnon |
τὼ κυμῑ́νω tṑ kumī́nō |
τᾰ̀ κύμῑνᾰ tà kúmīna | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κύμῑνον kúmīnon |
κυμῑ́νω kumī́nō |
κύμῑνᾰ kúmīna | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- κύμινον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύμινον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κύμινον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2951 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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