δεσμός

From δέω (déō, “to bind”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

δεσμός • (desmós) m (genitive δεσμοῦ); second declension

1. bond; fetter
2. collar; halter
3. bondage; imprisonment
4. spell; charm

• Although δεσμός (desmós) is masculine, it sometimes declines as neuter in the plural.

• Greek: δεσμός m (desmós, “relationship”)

  δεσμά n pl (desmá, “imprisonment, chains”)

• → Translingual: Desmos
• English: desmosome

• “δεσμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δεσμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δεσμός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δεσμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• δεσμός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δεσμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• “δεσμός”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G1199 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • attachment idem, page 49.
  • band idem, page 60.
  • bond idem, page 89.
  • brace idem, page 92.
  • cable idem, page 108.
  • chain idem, page 122.
  • cord idem, page 174.
  • durance idem, page 256.
  • fastening idem, page 308.
  • fetter idem, page 317.
  • imprisonment idem, page 424.
  • knot idem, page 471.
  • link idem, page 493.
  • manacle idem, page 511.
  • prison idem, page 642.
  • rope idem, page 721.
  • tie idem, page 874.
  • trammel idem, page 887.
  • union idem, page 922.

From Ancient Greek δεσμός (desmós).

δεσμός • (desmós) m (plural δεσμοί)

1. bond, tie (emotional, social)
2. (chemistry) bond
3. relationship, affair
4. (in the plural) imprisonment, chains

• δεσμά n or pl (desmá, “imprisonment, chains”)