κλεμμύς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The formation is similar to that of synonymous words χέλυς (khélus) and ἐμύς (emús). Originally considered a folk-etymological adaptation to κλέμμα (klémma) and κλέπτω (kléptō, “to conceal”), because turtles can hide their bodies under their shell. Furnée compares κρεμύς (kremús, “a kind of fish”) and χρέμυς (khrémus, “a sort of cod”); these variants confirm that the word is Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /klem.mýs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /klɛmˈmys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /klemˈmys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /klemˈmys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kleˈmis/
Noun
κλεμμῠ́ς • (klemmús) f (genitive κλεμμῠ́ος); third declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κλεμμῠ́ς hē klemmús |
τὼ κλεμμῠ́ε tṑ klemmúe |
αἱ κλεμμῠ́ες hai klemmúes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κλεμμῠός tês klemmuós |
τοῖν κλεμμῠοῖν toîn klemmuoîn |
τῶν κλεμμῠῶν tôn klemmuôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κλεμμῠῐ̈́ têi klemmuḯ |
τοῖν κλεμμῠοῖν toîn klemmuoîn |
ταῖς κλεμμῠσῐ́ / κλεμμῠσῐ́ν taîs klemmusí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κλεμμῠ́ν tḕn klemmún |
τὼ κλεμμῠ́ε tṑ klemmúe |
τᾱ̀ς κλεμμῦς / κλεμμῠ́ᾰς tā̀s klemmûs / klemmúas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κλεμμῠ́ klemmú |
κλεμμῠ́ε klemmúe |
κλεμμῠ́ες klemmúes | ||||||||||
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References
- κλεμμύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
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