κάρδαμον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• καρδάνη (kardánē)

Etymology

A wanderword, related to Middle Armenian կոտեմ (kotem, “garden cress”), which see for closer forms.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kár.da.mon/ → /ˈkar.ða.mon/ → /ˈkar.ða.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kár.da.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.da.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ða.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ða.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.ða.mon/

Noun

κάρδαμον • (kárdamon) n (genitive καρδάμου); second declension

1. garden cress (Lepidium sativum), of which the seed was eaten like mustard

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κάρδαμον; τοῦ καρδάμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κάρδαμον tò kárdamon	τὼ καρδάμω tṑ kardámō	τᾰ̀ κάρδαμᾰ tà kárdama
Genitive	τοῦ καρδάμου toû kardámou	τοῖν καρδάμοιν toîn kardámoin	τῶν καρδάμων tôn kardámōn
Dative	τῷ καρδάμῳ tôi kardámōi	τοῖν καρδάμοιν toîn kardámoin	τοῖς καρδάμοις toîs kardámois
Accusative	τὸ κάρδαμον tò kárdamon	τὼ καρδάμω tṑ kardámō	τᾰ̀ κάρδαμᾰ tà kárdama
Vocative	κάρδαμον kárdamon	καρδάμω kardámō	κάρδαμᾰ kárdama
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• καρδαμάλη (kardamálē)
• καρδαμίζω (kardamízō)
• καρδαμίνη (kardamínē)
• καρδαμίς (kardamís)
• καρδάμωμον (kardámōmon)

 

Descendants

• Greek: κάρδαμο (kárdamo)

Further reading

• “κάρδαμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κάρδαμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN