κάμηλος

See also: κάμιλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal) and Hebrew גָּמָל (gāmā́l), Proto-Nakh *imkal, Old Georgian აქლემი (aklemi) and Tocharian A oṅkaläm (“elephant”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.mɛː.los/ → /ˈka.mi.los/ → /ˈka.mi.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.mɛː.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me̝.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.mi.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.mi.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.mi.los/

Noun

κᾰ́μηλος • (kámēlos) m or f (genitive κᾰμήλου); second declension

1. camel

Declension

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́μηλος; τοῦ, τῆς κᾰμήλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ κᾰ́μηλος ho, hē kámēlos	τὼ κᾰμήλω tṑ kamḗlō	οἱ, αἱ κᾰ́μηλοι hoi, hai kámēloi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς κᾰμήλου toû, tês kamḗlou	τοῖν κᾰμήλοιν toîn kamḗloin	τῶν κᾰμήλων tôn kamḗlōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ κᾰμήλῳ tôi, têi kamḗlōi	τοῖν κᾰμήλοιν toîn kamḗloin	τοῖς, ταῖς κᾰμήλοις toîs, taîs kamḗlois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν κᾰ́μηλον tòn, tḕn kámēlon	τὼ κᾰμήλω tṑ kamḗlō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κᾰμήλους toùs, tā̀s kamḗlous
Vocative	κᾰ́μηλε kámēle	κᾰμήλω kamḗlō	κᾰ́μηλοι kámēloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Βακτριᾱνὸς κάμηλος (Baktriānòs kámēlos)
• δρομὰς κάμηλος (dromàs kámēlos)
• καμηλάριος (kamēlários)
• καμηλασία (kamēlasía)
• καμηλάσιον (kamēlásion)
• καμηλάτης (kamēlátēs)
• καμήλειος (kamḗleios)
• καμηλέμπορος (kamēlémporos)
• καμηλίζω (kamēlízō)
• καμηλικός (kamēlikós)
• καμήλιον (kamḗlion)
• καμηλίτης (kamēlítēs)
• καμηλοβοσκός (kamēloboskós)
• καμηλοκόμος (kamēlokómos)
• καμηλοπάρδαλις (kamēlopárdalis)
• καμηλοπόδιον (kamēlopódion)
• καμηλοτροφέω (kamēlotrophéō)
• καμηλοτρόφος (kamēlotróphos)
• καμηλώδης (kamēlṓdēs)
• καμηλών (kamēlṓn)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: camēlus (see there for further descendants)
• → Sanskrit: क्रमेल (kramela)
  • → Bengali: ক্রমেলক (kromelok)
  • → Hindi: क्रमेलक (kramelak)

Further reading

• “κάμηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάμηλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάμηλος 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
• G2574 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • camel idem, page 110.