κάσσυμα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κᾰ́ττῡμᾰ (kắttūmă) — Attic
Etymology
From κᾰσσῡ́ω (kăssū́ō, “to stitch, sew together”) + -μᾰ (-mă).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kás.syː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkas.sy.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkas.sy.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkas.sy.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈka.si.ma/
Noun
κᾰ́σσῡμᾰ • (kắssūmă) n (genitive κᾰσσῡ́μᾰτος); third declension
- anything stitched of leather
- sole of a shoe or sandal
- (figuratively, in the plural) patchings, botchings, of bad music
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κᾰ́σσῡμᾰ tò kắssūmă |
τὼ κᾰσσῡ́μᾰτε tṑ kăssū́măte |
τᾰ̀ κᾰσσῡ́μᾰτᾰ tằ kăssū́mătă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾰσσῡ́μᾰτος toû kăssū́mătos |
τοῖν κᾰσσῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn kăssūmắtoin |
τῶν κᾰσσῡμᾰ́των tôn kăssūmắtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾰσσῡ́μᾰτῐ tōî kăssū́mătĭ |
τοῖν κᾰσσῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn kăssūmắtoin |
τοῖς κᾰσσῡ́μᾰσῐ / κᾰσσῡ́μᾰσῐν toîs kăssū́măsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κᾰ́σσῡμᾰ tò kắssūmă |
τὼ κᾰσσῡ́μᾰτε tṑ kăssū́măte |
τᾰ̀ κᾰσσῡ́μᾰτᾰ tằ kăssū́mătă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾰ́σσῡμᾰ kắssūmă |
κᾰσσῡ́μᾰτε kăssū́măte |
κᾰσσῡ́μᾰτᾰ kăssū́mătă | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κάσσυμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κάσσυμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette