ζῶμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi, “to gird”) + -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdɔ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈzo.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzo.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzo.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzo.ma/
Noun
ζῶμᾰ • (zômă) n (genitive ζώμᾰτος); third declension
- loincloth, drawers, worn next the body in a boxing contest
- (surgery) band used in surgery
- woman's girdle
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ ζῶμᾰ tò zômă |
τὼ ζώμᾰτε tṑ zṓmăte |
τᾰ̀ ζώμᾰτᾰ tằ zṓmătă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ζώμᾰτος toû zṓmătos |
τοῖν ζωμᾰ́τοιν toîn zōmắtoin |
τῶν ζωμᾰ́των tôn zōmắtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ζώμᾰτῐ tōî zṓmătĭ |
τοῖν ζωμᾰ́τοιν toîn zōmắtoin |
τοῖς ζώμᾰσῐ / ζώμᾰσῐν toîs zṓmăsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ ζῶμᾰ tò zômă |
τὼ ζώμᾰτε tṑ zṓmăte |
τᾰ̀ ζώμᾰτᾰ tằ zṓmătă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ζῶμᾰ zômă |
ζώμᾰτε zṓmăte |
ζώμᾰτᾰ zṓmătă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “ζῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ζῶμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ζῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ζῶμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963