Ancient Greek

Noun

κώμη • ‎(kṓmē) f ‎(genitive κώμης); first declension

1. an unwalled village or country town
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Poetics 1448.A.36
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, The Shield of Heracles 18
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.98
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 626.C
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.96
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.5
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.10
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.94
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.2.5
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1261.A.28
2. a quarter or ward of a city
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Areopagiticus 46
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 746.D

Inflection

Derived terms

• κωμηδόν ‎(kōmēdón)
• κωμήτης ‎(kōmḗtēs)
• κωμητικός ‎(kōmētikós)
• κωμῆτις ‎(kōmêtis)
• κωμήτωρ ‎(kōmḗtōr)

References

• κώμη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κώμη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κώμη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G2968”, 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.
  • district idem, page 242.
  • hamlet idem, page 382.
  • quarter idem, page 663.
  • village idem, page 952.
  • ward idem, page 962.
• 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