θρύμμα

From θρῠ́πτω (thrŭ́ptō, “to shatter”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă).

θρῠ́μμᾰ • (thrŭ́mmă) n (genitive θρῠ́μμᾰτος); third declension

1. fragment, piece, bit, morsel

   Synonyms: κλᾰ́σμᾰ (klắsmă), θραῦμα (thraûma), ψωμός (psōmós)

   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On the Diseases of Women 1.75:

     […] οὖρον λαβὼν παλαιὸν καὶ σιδήρου σκωρίην ὅσην δὴ παλαστὴν τὰ θρύμματα, ἔπειτα καθίσας τὴν γυναῖκα ἐπὶ δίφρου, καὶ ξυγκαλύψας καὶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν, ὑποθεὶς ποδανιπτῆρα, ἐμβαλεῖν κατὰ τρία διάπυρα τὰ θρύμματα· […]

     […] oûron labṑn palaiòn kaì sidḗrou skōríēn hósēn dḕ palastḕn tà thrúmmata, épeita kathísas tḕn gunaîka epì díphrou, kaì xunkalúpsas kaì tò sôma kaì tḕn kephalḕn, hupotheìs podaniptêra, embaleîn katà tría diápura tà thrúmmata; […]

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• Greek: θρύμμα (thrýmma)

• “θρύμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θρύμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θρύμμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

From Ancient Greek θρύμμα (thrúmma), from θρύπτω (thrúptō, “to shatter”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɾima/
• Hyphenation: θρύμ‧μα

θρύμμα • (thrýmma) n (plural θρύμματα)

1. fragment, shard

   Synonym: θρύψαλο (thrýpsalo)

2. crumb

   Synonym: τρίμμα (trímma)

• θρυμματίζω (thrymmatízo, “to shatter”)

• θρύμμα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language