Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κᾰμμᾰρῐ́ς ‎(kammarís), κᾰ́μᾰρος ‎(kámaros), κᾰ́μμορον ‎(kámmoron)

Noun

κᾰ́μμᾰρος • ‎(kámmaros) m ‎(genitive κᾰμμᾰ́ρου); second declension

1. a kind of lobster or shrimp
   • 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 60
   • Sophr. 26
   • Rhinth. 18
2. (medicine) a kind of aconite (used as a cooling medicine)
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Loc.Hom. 27
   • Stratt. 21
   • 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 4.76
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Alexipharmaca 41
   1. larkspur, Consolida ajacis
      • Ps.-Dsc. 3.73
   2. mandrake, Mandragora officinarum
      • Ps.-Dsc. 4.75

Declension

Descendants

• Latin: cammarus, camarus, gammarus
  • Italian: gambero, gamberetto
  • Portuguese: camarão
  • Spanish: cámaro, cámbaro, camarón, gámbaro

References

• κάμμαρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «κάμμαρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κάμμαρος 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 631