δῶμα

Ancient Greek

Reanalyzed as a -μᾰ-stem from Epic δῶ (dô), from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“home; house”).^[1] Compare δόμος (dómos), δεσπότης (despótēs).

δῶμᾰ • (dômă) n (genitive δώμᾰτος); third declension

house
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 21.44
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.62
1. chief room, hall
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.316
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.329
2. (in the plural) a single house
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 2.259
  - 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 607
  - 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 332
  - 408 BCE, Euripides, Orestes 301
3. halls of the gods
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.13
    13.21
  1. the nether world
    - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 12.21
    - 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 110
    - 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 808
  2. (figurative) temple
    - 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.53
    - 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 242
    - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.62
    - 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 71
4. (δῶμα Καδμεῖον) Thebes
  - 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 29
5. housetop
  - 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Deuteronomy 22.8
  - 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 24:17
  - Babr. 5.5
household, family
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1468
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1226

Third declension of τὸ δῶμᾰ; τοῦ δώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δῶμᾰ tò dômă	τὼ δώμᾰτε tṑ dṓmăte	τᾰ̀ δώμᾰτᾰ tằ dṓmătă
Genitive	τοῦ δώμᾰτος toû dṓmătos	τοῖν δωμᾰ́τοιν toîn dōmắtoin	τῶν δωμᾰ́των tôn dōmắtōn
Dative	τῷ δώμᾰτῐ tōî dṓmătĭ	τοῖν δωμᾰ́τοιν toîn dōmắtoin	τοῖς δώμᾰσῐ / δώμᾰσῐν toîs dṓmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ δῶμᾰ tò dômă	τὼ δώμᾰτε tṑ dṓmăte	τᾰ̀ δώμᾰτᾰ tằ dṓmătă
Vocative	δῶμᾰ dômă	δώμᾰτε dṓmăte	δώμᾰτᾰ dṓmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of δῶμᾰ; δώμᾰτος (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	δῶμᾰ dômă	δώμᾰτε dṓmăte	δώμᾰτᾰ dṓmătă
Genitive	δώμᾰτος dṓmătos	δωμᾰ́τοιν / δωμᾰ́τοιῐν dōmắtoi(ĭ)n	δωμᾰ́των dōmắtōn
Dative	δώμᾰτῐ dṓmătĭ	δωμᾰ́τοιν / δωμᾰ́τοιῐν dōmắtoi(ĭ)n	δώμᾰσῐ / δώμᾰσῐν / δωμᾰ́τεσσῐ / δωμᾰ́τεσσῐν / δωμᾰ́τεσῐ / δωμᾰ́τεσῐν dṓmăsĭ(n) / dōmắtessĭ(n) / dōmắtesĭ(n)
Accusative	δῶμᾰ dômă	δώμᾰτε dṓmăte	δώμᾰτᾰ dṓmătă
Vocative	δῶμᾰ dômă	δώμᾰτε dṓmăte	δώμᾰτᾰ dṓmătă
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “δῶμα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 362-363

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G1430 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.
- abode idem, page 2.
- apartment idem, page 33.
- chamber idem, page 123.
- domicile idem, page 247.
- dwelling idem, page 257.
- family idem, page 305.
- home idem, page 403.
- house idem, page 408.
- household idem, page 408.
- room idem, page 721.