ἰκμάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to filter”) and cognate with Old English sēon (“to filter”), Russian сцать (scatʹ, “to piss”) and Sanskrit सिञ्चति (siñcáti, “to pour”). Beekes suggests *seyk- as the original root.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ik.más/ → /ikˈmas/ → /ikˈmas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ik.más/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ikˈmas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ikˈmas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ikˈmas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ikˈmas/

Noun

ἰκμᾰ́ς • (ikmás) f (genitive ἰκμᾰ́δος); third declension

1. moisture, wetness
2. secretion, animal juice

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ ἰκμᾰ́ς; τῆς ἰκμᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἰκμᾰ́ς hē ikmás	τὼ ἰκμᾰ́δε tṑ ikmáde	αἱ ἰκμᾰ́δες hai ikmádes
Genitive	τῆς ἰκμᾰ́δος tês ikmádos	τοῖν ἰκμᾰ́δοιν toîn ikmádoin	τῶν ἰκμᾰ́δων tôn ikmádōn
Dative	τῇ ἰκμᾰ́δῐ têi ikmádi	τοῖν ἰκμᾰ́δοιν toîn ikmádoin	ταῖς ἰκμᾰ́σῐ / ἰκμᾰ́σῐν taîs ikmási(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἰκμᾰ́δᾰ tḕn ikmáda	τὼ ἰκμᾰ́δε tṑ ikmáde	τᾱ̀ς ἰκμᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s ikmádas
Vocative	ἰκμᾰ́ς ikmás	ἰκμᾰ́δε ikmáde	ἰκμᾰ́δες ikmádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• ἄνικμος (ánikmos)
• δύσικμος (dúsikmos)
• ἔνικμος (énikmos)
• ἰκμαδώδης (ikmadṓdēs)
• ἰκμάζω (ikmázō)
• ἰκμαίνω (ikmaínō)
• ἰκμαῖος (ikmaîos)
• ἰκμαλέος (ikmaléos)
• ἰκμασία (ikmasía)
• ἰκμάω (ikmáō)
• ἴκμη (íkmē)
• ἴκμιος (íkmios)
• ἰκμόβωλον (ikmóbōlon)
• ἰκμώδης (ikmṓdēs)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ικμάδα (ikmáda)

Further reading

• “ἰκμάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἰκμάς 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