Κώμη - Stephanos Ethnika

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village

Entry #310
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 400.22 | Billerbeck: Κ310
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count: 56
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Φιλόξενος (Philoxenos) fr. 132 Theodoridis, Ἡσίοδος (Hesiod) Op. 344 [Op.]
Entities: Κώμη (Kome (village)) [place]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: Hence it is called (kōmḗ) from their being places in which one sleeps and encamps (from κοιμᾶσθαι 'to sleep' and αὐλίζεσθαι 'to encamp').
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Κώμη, ἐν ταῖς μακραῖς ὁδοῖς μέσα χωρία ἔκτισαν πρὸς τὸ κοιμᾶσθαι νυκτὸς ἐπιγενομένης, ὅθεν καὶ ἐπικέκληται, ὡς Φιλόξενος. ὁ οἰκήτωρ ἐγκώμιος. Ἡσίοδος “εἰ γάρ τοι καὶ χρῆμ´ ἐγκώμιον ἄλλο γένοιτο”. καὶ κωμαῖος καὶ κωμήτης ἀρσενικῶς καὶ θηλυκῶς διὰ τοῦ « ι ». καὶ ὁ δῆμος κώμη. εἴρηται ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν αὐταῖς κοιμᾶσθαί τε καὶ αὐλίζεσθαι. λέγεται καὶ κωμήτωρ.

Kōmē: On long roads they built intermediate settlements for sleeping when night came on; hence it has also received its name, as Philoxenus says. The inhabitant is en-kōmios (“of the kōmē”). Hesiod (Op. 344): “for even if there should accrue to you some other en-kōmion (gain at the kōmē)”. Also kōmaios and kōmētēs, masculine and feminine, written with iota. And the community (dēmos) is a kōmē. It is said to derive from sleeping and lodging in them. The form kōmētōr is also used.

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Herodian 1.325

char LCS 49 (17.6%) · word LCS 10 (17.9%)

Stephanos

…ὸς τὸ κοιμᾶσθαι νυκτὸς ἐπιγενομένης, ὅθεν καὶ ἐπικέκληται, ὡς Φιλόξενος. ὁ οἰκήτωρ ἐγκώμιος. Ἡσίοδος “εἰ γάρ τοι καὶ χρῆμ´ ἐγκώμιον ἄλλο γένοιτο”. καὶ κωμαῖος καὶ κωμήτης ἀρσενικῶς καὶ θηλυκῶς διὰ τοῦ « ι ». καὶ ὁ δῆμος κώμη. εἴρηται ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν αὐταῖς κοιμᾶσθαί τε καὶ αὐλίζεσθαι. λέγεται καὶ κωμήτωρ.

Herodian

…νυῖα, κόσμη γάρ. ὡσαύτως καὶ τὸ Εὐρυνόμη καὶ Ἀμφινόμη βαρύνονται. Τὰ εἰς 'μη' φύσει μακρᾷ παραληγόμενα βαρύνεται, μνήμη, κνήμη, φήμη, χήμη, νοσήμη, θελήμη, φιλήμη ἡ φιλία. ῥώμη καὶ Ῥώμη διασημοτάτη πόλις Ἰταλίας, γνώμη, κώμη εἴρηται ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν αὐταῖς κοιμᾶσθαί τε καὶ αὐλίζεσθαι, ὡς Φιλόξενος. βρώμη, τρώμη, Ἰθώμη πόλις Θεσσαλίας τῆς Πελασγιώτιδος. Ὅμηρος »οἵ τ´ εἶχον Τρίκκην καὶ Ἰθώμην κλωμακόεσσαν (Β 729). ἔστι καὶ Μεσσήνης. ἀπὸ Ἰθώμου βασιλέως. καλεῖται δὲ ὁ τόπος τῆς Θεσσαλικῆς Θούμαιον ἀποβ…

Herodian 1.118

char LCS 49 (17.6%) · word LCS 10 (17.9%)

Stephanos

Κώμη, ἐν ταῖς μακραῖς ὁδοῖς μέσα χωρία ἔκτισαν πρὸς τὸ κοιμᾶσθαι νυκτὸς ἐπιγενομένης, ὅθεν καὶ ἐπικέκληται, ὡς Φιλόξενος. ὁ οἰκήτωρ ἐγκώμιος. Ἡσίοδος “εἰ γάρ τοι καὶ χρῆμ´ ἐγκώμιον ἄλλο γένοιτο”. καὶ κωμαῖος καὶ κωμήτης ἀρσενικῶς καὶ θηλυκῶς διὰ τοῦ « ι ». καὶ ὁ δῆμος κώμη. εἴρηται ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐν αὐταῖς κοιμᾶσθαί τε καὶ αὐλίζεσθαι. λέγεται καὶ κωμήτωρ.

Herodian

…ντόπιος, ἐκτόπιος, ἐνδάπιος, ἐγχώριος καὶ ἐπιχώριος, τὸ χώριος μὲν οὐ λέγεται, ἀλλὰ τὰ σύνθετα. τὸ ἐγχώριος καὶ παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ κεῖται (Oed. Col. 875). τὸ δὲ ἐπιχώριος καὶ ἐπιχωριάζειν ἐν τῷ περὶ ψυχῆς φησι Πλάτων (c. 1). ἐγκώμιος. Ἡσίοδος «εἰ γάρ τοι καὶ χρῆμ´ ἐγκώμιον ἄλλο γένοιτο». Ἄβιος ἔθνος Σκυθικόν. Ὅμηρος (Il. Ν 6) «Γλακτοφάγων Ἀβίων τε, δικαιοτάτων ἀνθρώπων». Ἀλέξανδρος δὲ ἐν τῷ περὶ Εὐξείνου πόντου φησίν, ὡς Διόφαντος εἶπεν, οὕτω λέγεσθαι αὐτοὺς διὰ τὸ τὸν Ἀβιανὸν ποταμὸν κατοικεῖν. ἢ ὅτι…