thema
See also: Thema and þema
English
Noun
thema (plural themas or themata)
- A subject or theme.
- 1997, Rocco Caopzzi, Reading Eco: An Anthology, page 111:
- Eco has his own image for this method-spiral repetition: every new exploration elevates the solutions to a higher level by expanding the thema's cognitive context.
- 2013, Siegfried Wenzel, The Art of Preaching, page 151:
- With regard to its division—which is the second main section [of this treatise]—one must diligently examine the meaning of the words that appear in the thema.
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Anagrams
- Hatem, Meath, Mehta, Thame, meath, thame
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈteː.maː/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: the‧ma
- Rhymes: -eːmaː
Noun
thema n (plural thema's or themata, diminutive themaatje n)
- topic, subject, issue
- (music) theme
Derived terms
- themakanaal
- thematisch
- themavocaal
Descendants
- → Indonesian: tema
Interlingua
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈte.ma/
Noun
thema (plural themas)
- subject (e.g., of conversation)
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtʰe.ma/, [ˈt̪ʰɛmä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈte.ma/, [ˈt̪ɛːmä]
Noun
thema n (genitive thematis); third declension
- theme, topic
- the alignment of celestial bodies at a person's birth, horoscope
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | thema | themata |
| Genitive | thematis | thematum |
| Dative | thematī | thematibus |
| Accusative | thema | themata |
| Ablative | themate | thematibus |
| Vocative | thema | themata |
Related terms
- Themis
Descendants
- → English: theme
- → German: Thema
- → Japanese: テーマ (rōmaji tēma)
- → Russian: те́ма (téma)
- → French: thème
- → Italian: tema
- → Dutch: thema
- → Portuguese: teima, tema
- → Romanian: temă
- → Spanish: tema
References
- “thema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- thema in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- thema in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Portuguese
Noun
thema m (plural themas)
- Obsolete spelling of tema (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).