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κωμήτης

κωμήτης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κωμῑ́της ‎(kōmī́tēs)

Noun

κωμήτης • ‎(kōmḗtēs) m ‎(genitive κωμήτου); first declension

villager, countryman
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 762.A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 763.A
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.24
- 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 4.14
(urban) inhabitant of the same quarter or district
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 965
- 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 476

Inflection

First declension of ὁ κωμήτης; τοῦ κωμήτου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κωμήτης	τὼ κωμήτᾱ	οἱ κωμῆται
Genitive	τοῦ κωμήτου	τοῖν κωμήταιν	τῶν κωμητῶν
Dative	τῷ κωμήτῃ	τοῖν κωμήταιν	τοῖς κωμήταις
Accusative	τὸν κωμήτην	τὼ κωμήτᾱ	τοὺς κωμήτᾱς
Vocative	κωμήτης	κωμήτᾱ	κωμῆται
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Ἑβδομηκοντακωμῆται ‎(Hebdomēkontakōmêtai)

References

κωμήτης in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κωμήτης in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
«κωμήτης» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- villager idem, page 952.