βρέγμα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βρεγμός (bregmós)
- βρεχμός (brekhmós)
- βρέχμα (brékhma)
Etymology
Originally βρέχμα (brékhma), βρεχμός (brekhmós); the ⟨γ⟩ has resulted from voicing assimilation. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ- (“brain, skull”) and cognate with English brain.
Noun
βρέγμα • (brégma) f (genitive βρέγμης); first declension
- the bone directly above the brain, (anatomy) bregma; brainpan
- Aristotle, Historia Animalum 495a.10.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- → English: bregma
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βρεχμός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 238
- βρέγμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βρέγμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βρέγμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βρέγμα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- βρέγμα 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