κύαμος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • πύανος (púanos)

Etymology

Beekes suggests a Pre-Greek origin due to the presence of variations and rejects a derivation from κυέω (kuéō).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κῠ́ᾰμος (kúamos) m (genitive κῠᾰ́μου); second declension

  1. bean (Vicia faba)
  2. (medicine) A swelling of the paps

Inflection

Derived terms

  • κυάμιον (kuámion)
  • κυάμινος (kuáminos)
  • κυαμίας (kuamías)
  • κυαμίτης (kuamítēs)
  • κυαμών (kuamṓn)
  • κυαμωνίτης (kuamōnítēs)

Synonyms

References

  • κύαμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κύαμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • κύαμος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κύαμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κύαμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 66
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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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