phonema
Interlingua
Etymology
Ultimately derived from Ancient Greek φώνημᾰ (phṓnēmă, “sound”).
Noun
phonema (plural phonemas)
- phoneme (indivisible unit of sound)
Latin
Etymology
Ultimately derived from Ancient Greek φώνημᾰ (phṓnēmă, “sound”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pʰoːˈneː.ma]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [foˈnɛː.ma]
Noun
phōnēma f (genitive phōnēmatis); third declension
- phoneme (indivisible unit of sound)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | phōnēma | phōnēmata |
| genitive | phōnēmatis | phōnēmatum |
| dative | phōnēmatī | phōnēmatibus |
| accusative | phōnēma | phōnēmata |
| ablative | phōnēmate | phōnēmatibus |
| vocative | phōnēma | phōnēmata |
References
- “phonema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press