κάλαμον (kalamon)

κάλαμον is an Ancient Greek form of κάλαμος, meaning “reed”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Κάλαμος, “Kalamos — a town of Phoenicia, mentioned by Pliny as following Trieris”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 21.47: τὸν κάλαμον δʼ ὑπὸ τῶ κινήματος ἀγκύλον εἶχον

Plato, Republic 2.372: … ν ἄλφιτα σκευαζόμενοι, ἐκ δὲ τῶν πυρῶν ἄλευρα, τὰ μὲν πέψαντες, τὰ δὲ μάξαντες, μάζας γενναίας καὶ ἄρτους ἐπὶ κάλαμόν τινα παραβαλλόμενοι ἢ φύλλα καθαρά, κατακλινέντες ἐπὶ στιβάδων ἐστρωμένων μίλακί τε καὶ μυρρίναις, εὐωχήσοντα …

Polybius, Histories 5.68.8: μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ποιησάμενος τὴν εἰσβολὴν κατὰ τὸ καλούμενον Θεοῦ πρόσωπον ἧκε πρὸς Βηρυτόν, Βότρυν μὲν ἐν τῇ παρόδῳ καταλαβόμενος, Τριήρη δὲ καὶ Κάλαμον ἐμπρήσας.

All forms of κάλαμος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.