Ancient Greek

Noun

κόμμᾰ • ‎(kómma) n ‎(genitive κόμμᾰτος); third declension

1. a stamp or impression of a coin, coinage
2. that which is cut off, piece
3. chaff
4. (rhetoric) a short clause
5. a contusion

Inflection

Derived terms

• κομματίας ‎(kommatías)
• κομματικός ‎(kommatikós)
• κομμάτιον ‎(kommátion)

Descendants

• Latin: comma
  • English: comma

References

• κόμμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόμμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κόμμα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «κόμμα» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • coinage idem, page 142.
  • die idem, page 222.
  • hall-mark idem, page 381.
  • impression idem, page 423.
  • minted money idem, page 531.
  • mint mark idem, page 531.
  • stamp idem, page 810.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόμμα ‎(kómma).

Noun

κόμμα • ‎(kómma) n ‎(plural κόμματα)

1. (grammar, typography) comma, the “,”
2. (mathematics) a decimal point

   5,3 (five point three)

   €2.500,50 (two thousand five hundred euros and fifty cents)

3. (politics) a political party

Declension

Synonyms

• υποστιγμή f ‎(ypostigmí)
• υποδιαστολή f ‎(ypodiastolí, “decimal point”)

See also

see also: Greek Punctuation and Greek alphabet (Diacritics)

External links

• Κόμμα (στίξη) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• Πολιτικό κόμμα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el