κῶμος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">revel, carousal, merry-making of youths, Dionysiac festive procession and festive songs, feast</b> (posthom.).<br />Compounds: Compp., e.g. <b class="b3">κωμ-ῳδός</b> [[singer of a κῶμος]] (Att.), [[comic player]] (hell.) with <b class="b3">-έω</b>, <b class="b3">-ία</b> etc., <b class="b3">σύγ-κωμος</b> <b class="b2">comrade of a κ.</b> (Att.; rather backformation from <b class="b3">συγ-κωμάζω</b>).<br />Derivatives: [[κωμικός]] = [[κωμῳδικός]] [[belonging to a comedy]] (Aeschin., Arist., hell.); [[κωμάζω]] [[participate in a κῶμος]], [[drink]] (posthom.) with [[κωμασία]] [[festive procession]], [[κωμαστής]] [[drinker]], [[member of a festive procession]] (Att., pap.), [[κωμαστήριον]] [[place where κωμασταί assemble]] (pap.), [[κωμαστικός]] <b class="b2">belonging to a κωμαστής or a κῶμος</b> (D. H., Ph.).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]<br />Etymology: As the development of the meaning of [[κῶμος]] is uncertain, the etymology rests on assumptions: with [[κώμη]], Goth. [[haims]] etc. (s. [[κώμη]]) to a supposed <b class="b2">*kōi-</b> [[assemble]], [[range oneself]] (Bezzenberger BB 27, 168); to [[κώμυς]] (Persson Beitr. 1, 160); as [[banquet]] to Lat. [[cibus]] (?; Osthoff Etym. parerga 1, 7). - I suggest that this was a Pre-Greek word.