- κόμη
- κόμηGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `hair' (on the number Schwyzer-Debrunner 43), also of the manes of a horse (Il.), metaph. `foliage', also of `growth' in gen. (Od.), `tail of a comet' (Arist.).Compounds: Compp., e. g. ἱππό-κομος `covered with horse-hair', of a helmet (Il.; aber ἱππο-κόμος to κομέω), κομα-τροφέω (-ο-) `grow ones hair' (Amorgos, Str.).Derivatives: Dimin. κομίσκᾱ (Alcm.) and κόμιον (Arr.). Further κομήτης m. `with (long) hair' (IA.), "hairstar", `comet' (Arist.; Scherer Gestirnnamen 105, 107f.), also plant-name = `τιθύμαλλος, Euphorbia' (Dsk.); κομήεις `with leaves' (Orph.). Denomin. κομάω (Ion. -έω) `have long hair, (show with well kept hair)' (Il.); late with ἀνα-, κατα- a. o.Origin: XX [etym. unknown]Etymology: Not certainly explained. κόμη may be taken as "well cared hair" (as opposed to θρίξ; s. v.) and connected with κομέω `care'; so orig. meaning *`care'. Schwyzer 725 n. 10 considers for κόμη postverbal origin from κομάω, which could be a by-form to κομέω `care'. As however κομάω is always connected with hair and is never used as `care', the assumprion is not very probble. - Diff. Wood ClassPhil. 21, 341f. - Lat. LW [loanword] coma; cf. W.-Hofmann s. v.Page in Frisk: 1,908-909
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