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κώμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κώμη κώμης

Structure: κωμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. an unwalled village or country town
  2. a quarter or ward of a city

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ μῦσ οἱ χρυσοῖ κατ̓ ἀριθμὸν πασῶν πόλεων τῶν ἀλλοφύλων τῶν πέντε σατραπῶν ἐκ πόλεωσ ἐστερεωμένησ καὶ ἕωσ κώμησ τοῦ Φερεζαίου καὶ ἕωσ λίθου τοῦ μεγάλου, οὗ ἐπέθηκαν ἐπ̓ αὐτοῦ τὴν κιβωτὸν διαθήκησ Κυρίου, τοῦ ἐν ἀγρῷ Ὠσηὲ τοῦ Βαιθσαμυσίτου. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 6:18)
  • ὡσ καὶ αὐλητρὶσ ἧκεν ἐκ τῆσ πλησίον κώμησ αὐτοῖσ καὶ ὡσ δῶρα ἀλλήλοισ ἀντέδοσαν, ὁ Μαῦροσ μὲν τῷ Μαλχίωνι λόγχην, ὁ δὲ τῷ Μαυσάκᾳ πόρπην, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ τοιαῦτα τῆσ ἐπ̓ Εὐρώπῳ μάχησ αὐτὰ δὴ τὰ κεφάλαια. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 28 2:1)
  • ὅτι ὁ Μαρεώτησ οἶνοσ ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεωτικὸσ τὴν μὲν προσηγορίαν ἔχει ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ λίμνησ Μαρείασ καὶ τῆσ παρ’ αὐτὴν πόλεωσ ὁμωνύμου, ἣ πρότερον μὲν ἦν μεγίστη, νῦν δὲ κώμησ περιείληφε μέγεθοσ, τὴν προσηγορίαν λαβοῦσα ἀπὸ Μάρωνοσ ἑνὸσ τῶν μετὰ Διονύσου τὰσ στρατείασ πεποιημένων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 60 1:1)
  • ἀφίσταται δὲ τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ ἡ Γαυλανῖτισ χώρα μέχρι κώμησ Σολύμησ. (Flavius Josephus, 224:2)
  • βαλλομένου δ’ ἐκείνου χάρακα πρὸ τῆσ Πτολεμαέων πόλεωσ τίθεμαι κἀγὼ στρατόπεδον τῆσ κώμησ ὅσον ἑξήκοντα σταδίουσ ἀποσχών. (Flavius Josephus, 257:2)

Synonyms

  1. an unwalled village or country town

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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