κάλυμμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover, to conceal”) + -μα (-ma).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ká.lym.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈka.lym.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈka.lym.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈka.lym.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.li.ma/
Noun
κάλυμμᾰ • (kálummă) n (genitive καλύμμᾰτος); third declension
- A head covering, a hood, a veil
- A fishing net shaped like a sack
- (anatomy) A skull (as the brain's covering)
- A grave
- (zoology) The covering of the gills of fish
- The covering of honeycomb
- The shell of fruits
- A shutter
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κάλυμμᾰ tò kálummă |
τὼ καλύμμᾰτε tṑ kalúmmăte |
τᾰ̀ καλύμμᾰτᾰ tằ kalúmmătă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ καλύμμᾰτος toû kalúmmătos |
τοῖν καλυμμᾰ́τοιν toîn kalummắtoin |
τῶν καλυμμᾰ́των tôn kalummắtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ καλύμμᾰτῐ tōî kalúmmătĭ |
τοῖν καλυμμᾰ́τοιν toîn kalummắtoin |
τοῖς καλύμμᾰσῐ / καλύμμᾰσῐν toîs kalúmmăsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κάλυμμᾰ tò kálummă |
τὼ καλύμμᾰτε tṑ kalúmmăte |
τᾰ̀ καλύμμᾰτᾰ tằ kalúmmătă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κάλυμμᾰ kálummă |
καλύμμᾰτε kalúmmăte |
καλύμμᾰτᾰ kalúmmătă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Aramaic: גלימא (galīmā)
- → Persian: گلیم (gelim)
- → Bashkir: келәм (keləm)
- → Hindustani:
- → Kazakh: кілем (kılem)
- → Khalaj: gelîm
- → Kyrgyz: килем (kilem)
- → Uyghur: گىلەم (gilem)
- → Uzbek: gilam
- → Ottoman Turkish: كلیم (kilim, “carpet, rug”)
- Turkish: kilim
- → Albanian: qilim, qylym
- → Armenian: քիլիմ (kʻilim)
- → Arabic: كِلِيم (kilīm)
- → Belarusian: кілі́м (kilím)
- → Lithuanian: kilimas
- → Bulgarian: кили́м (kilím)
- → Greek: κιλίμι (kilími)
- → Macedonian: ќилим (ḱilim)
- → Pannonian Rusyn: килим (kilim)
- → Romanian: chilim
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Ukrainian: ки́лим (kýlym)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “καλύπτω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 628
Further reading
- “κάλυμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάλυμμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.li.ma/
- Hyphenation: κά‧λυμ‧μα
Noun
κάλυμμα • (kálymma) n (plural καλύμματα)
Declension
Declension of κάλυμμα singular plural nominative κάλυμμα (kálymma) καλύμματα (kalýmmata) genitive καλύμματος (kalýmmatos) καλυμμάτων (kalymmáton) accusative κάλυμμα (kálymma) καλύμματα (kalýmmata) vocative κάλυμμα (kálymma) καλύμματα (kalýmmata)