ἔμβαμμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐμβάπτω (embáptō, “I dip in”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ém.bam.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈem.bam.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈem.bam.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈem.bam.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈem.ba.ma/
Noun
ἔμβᾰμμᾰ • (émbămmă) n (genitive ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτος); third declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἔμβᾰμμᾰ tò émbămmă |
τὼ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτε tṑ embắmmăte |
τᾰ̀ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ tằ embắmmătă | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτος toû embắmmătos |
τοῖν ἐμβᾰμμᾰ́τοιν toîn embămmắtoin |
τῶν ἐμβᾰμμᾰ́των tôn embămmắtōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτῐ tōî embắmmătĭ |
τοῖν ἐμβᾰμμᾰ́τοιν toîn embămmắtoin |
τοῖς ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰσῐ / ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰσῐν toîs embắmmăsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἔμβᾰμμᾰ tò émbămmă |
τὼ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτε tṑ embắmmăte |
τᾰ̀ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ tằ embắmmătă | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἔμβᾰμμᾰ émbămmă |
ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτε embắmmăte |
ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ embắmmătă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: embamma
Further reading
- “ἔμβαμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔμβαμμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette