νῆμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νέω (néō, “to spin”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɛ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈne̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈni.ma/
Noun
νῆμᾰ • (nêmă) n (genitive νήμᾰτος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ νῆμᾰ tò nêmă |
τὼ νήμᾰτε tṑ nḗmăte |
τᾰ̀ νήμᾰτᾰ tằ nḗmătă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ νήμᾰτος toû nḗmătos |
τοῖν νημᾰ́τοιν toîn nēmắtoin |
τῶν νημᾰ́των tôn nēmắtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ νήμᾰτῐ tōî nḗmătĭ |
τοῖν νημᾰ́τοιν toîn nēmắtoin |
τοῖς νήμᾰσῐ / νήμᾰσῐν toîs nḗmăsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ νῆμᾰ tò nêmă |
τὼ νήμᾰτε tṑ nḗmăte |
τᾰ̀ νήμᾰτᾰ tằ nḗmătă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νῆμᾰ nêmă |
νήμᾰτε nḗmăte |
νήμᾰτᾰ nḗmătă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “νῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νῆμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νῆμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- νῆμα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.