Ancient Greek

Komos scene.

Noun

κῶμος • ‎(kômos) m ‎(genitive κώμου); second declension

1. festival, procession, revel, carousel
2. The band of revellers of such an event
3. A song or ode sung at such an event

Inflection

Derived terms

• κωμάζω ‎(kōmázō)
  • cōmissor
• κωμῳδία ‎(kōmōidía)
  • cōmoedia

References

• κῶμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κῶμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κῶμος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• κῶμος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2970”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • band idem, page 60.
  • carousal idem, page 114.
  • conviviallty idem, page 172.
  • debauch idem, page 199.
  • dissipation idem, page 240.
  • flock idem, page 328.
  • hilarity idem, page 400.
  • jollity idem, page 464.
  • merriment idem, page 526.
  • merry-making idem, page 526.
  • mirth idem, page 532.
  • orgies idem, page 579.
  • ovation idem, page 584.
  • reveller idem, page 709.
  • revelry idem, page 709.
  • riot idem, page 716.
  • roisteing idem, page 720.
  • roisterer idem, page 720.
  • rout idem, page 723.
• Rix, Helmut, editor (2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, ISBN 3-89500-219-4, page 326 of 326, 343
• 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, page 814