κάγκαμον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κᾰ́γκᾰλον (kánkalon)
Etymology
From an Oriental source.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /káŋ.ka.mon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ.ka.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkaŋ.ɡa.mon/
Noun
κᾰ́γκᾰμον • (kánkamon) n (genitive κᾰγκᾰ́μου); second declension
- bisabol, a gum produced by the plant Commiphora kataf
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κᾰ́γκᾰμον tò kánkamon |
τὼ κᾰγκᾰ́μω tṑ kankámō |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́γκᾰμᾰ tà kánkama | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰγκᾰ́μου toû kankámou |
τοῖν κᾰγκᾰ́μοιν toîn kankámoin |
τῶν κᾰγκᾰ́μων tôn kankámōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰγκᾰ́μῳ tôi kankámōi |
τοῖν κᾰγκᾰ́μοιν toîn kankámoin |
τοῖς κᾰγκᾰ́μοις toîs kankámois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κᾰ́γκᾰμον tò kánkamon |
τὼ κᾰγκᾰ́μω tṑ kankámō |
τᾰ̀ κᾰ́γκᾰμᾰ tà kánkama | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰ́γκᾰμον kánkamon |
κᾰγκᾰ́μω kankámō |
κᾰ́γκᾰμᾰ kánkama | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: cancamum
Further reading
- “κάγκαμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάγκαμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
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