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Book Hotels in Kalamos
Population: Unkown
Latitude: 20.930972
Longitude: 38.622091
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Kalamos (Latin: Calamus) is an ancient Greek word meaning reed or reed pen. The basis for this meaning is the story of the Greek mythological figure Kalamos, son of Maiandros (god of the Maeander river).
A story in Nonnus's Dionysiaca tells about the love of two youths, Kalamos and Karpos, the son of Zephyrus and Chloris. Karpos drowned in the Meander river while the two were competing in a swimming contest. In his grief, Kalamos allowed himself to drown also. He was then transformed into a water reed, whose rustling in the wind was interpreted as a sigh of lamentation.
Walt Whitman's "Calamus" poems in Leaves of Grass may have been inspired by this story.
Similar words can be found in Sanskrit (kalama, meaning "reed" and "pen" as well as a type of rice), Hebrew (kulmus, meaning quill) and Latin (calamus). These words are most likely derived from the ancient Greek term "kalamos". The Arabic word قلم qalam (meaning "pen" or "reed pen") is likely to have been borrowed from one of these languages in antiquity. The Swahili word kalamu ("pen") comes from the Arabic qalam.
From the Latin calamus come a number of modern English words:
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