λῦμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”) + -μᾰ (-mă).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lŷː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈly.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈly.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.ma/
Noun
λῦμᾰ • (lûmă) n (genitive λῡ́μᾰτος); third declension
- water used in washing, bathwater
- dirt removed by washing, offscouring
- moral filth, defilement
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λῦμᾰ tò lûmă |
τὼ λῡ́μᾰτε tṑ lū́măte |
τᾰ̀ λῡ́μᾰτᾰ tằ lū́mătă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λῡ́μᾰτος toû lū́mătos |
τοῖν λῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn lūmắtoin |
τῶν λῡμᾰ́των tôn lūmắtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λῡ́μᾰτῐ tōî lū́mătĭ |
τοῖν λῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn lūmắtoin |
τοῖς λῡ́μᾰσῐ / λῡ́μᾰσῐν toîs lū́măsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λῦμᾰ tò lûmă |
τὼ λῡ́μᾰτε tṑ lū́măte |
τᾰ̀ λῡ́μᾰτᾰ tằ lū́mătă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λῦμᾰ lûmă |
λῡ́μᾰτε lū́măte |
λῡ́μᾰτᾰ lū́mătă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: λύμα (lýma)
Further reading
- “λῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λῦμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bane idem, page 61.
- contamination idem, page 166.
- defilement idem, page 205.
- desecration idem, page 215.
- infection idem, page 437.
- pest idem, page 609.
- plague idem, page 616.
- plague-spot idem, page 616.
- pollution idem, page 625.
- scourge idem, page 741.
- stain idem, page 809.
- taint idem, page 852.