קומוס
Hebrew
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin comes, possibly via replacing Latin -es with Ancient Greek -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈqomos/ [ˈqoː.mos]
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈkomos/ [ˈko̞.mo̞s]
Noun
קוֹמוֹס • (kómos) m
- alternative form of קוֹמֵיס
- a. 425 C.E., Jerusalem Talmud. Berachot, section 9.2:
- כֵּיוָן שֶׁרָאָה דָּוִד כָּךְ שֶׁהוּא אוֹהֵב מָמוֹן מַה עָשָׂה הֶעֱמִידוֹ קוֹמוֹס עַל תֵּיסַבְרִיּוֹת שֶׁלּוֹ.
- When David saw that he loved money, he made him comes of his treasuries.
References
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons