δημός

From Proto-Indo-European *deh₂mo- from *deh₂- (“to flow”), whence Old Armenian տամուկ (tamuk, “humid, moist”), Albanian dhjamë (“fat”), Sanskrit दानु (dānu, “fluid, drop”).

δημός • (dēmós) m (genitive δημοῦ); second declension

1. fat
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.750
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 538
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 40
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.243
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.380

• “δημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δημός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δημός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δημός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δημός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • fat idem, page 309.