λῦμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”) + -μᾰ (-ma).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lŷː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.ma/
Noun
λῦμᾰ • (lûma) n (genitive λῡ́μᾰτος); third declension
- water used in washing, bathwater
- dirt removed by washing, offscouring
- moral filth, defilement
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λῦμᾰ tò lûma |
τὼ λῡ́μᾰτε tṑ lū́mate |
τᾰ̀ λῡ́μᾰτᾰ tà lū́mata | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λῡ́μᾰτος toû lū́matos |
τοῖν λῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn lūmátoin |
τῶν λῡμᾰ́των tôn lūmátōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λῡ́μᾰτῐ tôi lū́mati |
τοῖν λῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn lūmátoin |
τοῖς λῡ́μᾰσῐ / λῡ́μᾰσῐν toîs lū́masi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λῦμᾰ tò lûma |
τὼ λῡ́μᾰτε tṑ lū́mate |
τᾰ̀ λῡ́μᾰτᾰ tà lū́mata | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῦμᾰ lûma |
λῡ́μᾰτε lū́mate |
λῡ́μᾰτᾰ lū́mata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: λύμα (lýma)
Further reading
- “λῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λῦμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bane idem, page 61.
- contamination idem, page 166.
- defilement idem, page 205.
- desecration idem, page 215.
- infection idem, page 437.
- pest idem, page 609.
- plague idem, page 616.
- plague-spot idem, page 616.
- pollution idem, page 625.
- scourge idem, page 741.
- stain idem, page 809.
- taint idem, page 852.
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