φώνημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

φωνέω (phōnéō, “I produce a sound or tone”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ː.nɛː.ma/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰo.ne̝.ma/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.ni.ma/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ni.ma/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ni.ma/

Noun

φώνημᾰ • (phṓnēmă) n (genitive φωνήματος); third declension

sound made, utterance
1. of a singer’s voice
2. of a dog’s bark and ass’s bray
thing spoken, speech, language

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ φώνημᾰ; τοῦ φωνήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φώνημᾰ tò phṓnēmă	τὼ φωνήμᾰτε tṑ phōnḗmăte	τᾰ̀ φωνήμᾰτᾰ tằ phōnḗmătă
Genitive	τοῦ φωνήμᾰτος toû phōnḗmătos	τοῖν φωνημᾰ́τοιν toîn phōnēmắtoin	τῶν φωνημᾰ́των tôn phōnēmắtōn
Dative	τῷ φωνήμᾰτῐ tōî phōnḗmătĭ	τοῖν φωνημᾰ́τοιν toîn phōnēmắtoin	τοῖς φωνήμᾰσῐ / φωνήμᾰσῐν toîs phōnḗmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ φώνημᾰ tò phṓnēmă	τὼ φωνήμᾰτε tṑ phōnḗmăte	τᾰ̀ φωνήμᾰτᾰ tằ phōnḗmătă
Vocative	φώνημᾰ phṓnēmă	φωνήμᾰτε phōnḗmăte	φωνήμᾰτᾰ phōnḗmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: φώνημα (fónima)

References

“φώνημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“φώνημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
φώνημα 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.
- speech idem, page 800.
- utterance idem, page 941.
- voice idem, page 955.

Greek

Etymology

A reborrowing from French phonème (“phoneme”), from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound made”, “utterance”; “thing spoken”, “speech”, “language”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfonima/
Hyphenation: φώ‧νη‧μα

Noun

φώνημα • (fónima) n (plural φωνήματα)

(linguistics) phoneme

Declension

Declension of **φώνημα**
	singular	plural
nominative	φώνημα (fónima)	φωνήματα (fonímata)
genitive	φωνήματος (fonímatos)	φωνημάτων (fonimáton)
accusative	φώνημα (fónima)	φωνήματα (fonímata)
vocative	φώνημα (fónima)	φωνήματα (fonímata)

Related terms

see: φωνή n (foní, “sound, voice”)

References

^ φώνημα - Babiniotis, Georgios (2008) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: […] [Dictionary of Modern Greek (language)] (in Greek), 3rd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias [Lexicology Centre], 1st edition 1998, →ISBN.

Ancient Greek

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Greek

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