νῆμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νέω (néō, “to spin”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nɛ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈne̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈni.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈni.ma/
Noun
νῆμᾰ • (nêma) n (genitive νήμᾰτος); third declension
- That which is spun: thread, yarn
- silk
- strand of a spider's web
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ νῆμᾰ; τοῦ νήμᾰτος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ νῆμᾰ tò nêma | τὼ νήμᾰτε tṑ nḗmate | τᾰ̀ νήμᾰτᾰ tà nḗmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ νήμᾰτος toû nḗmatos | τοῖν νημᾰ́τοιν toîn nēmátoin | τῶν νημᾰ́των tôn nēmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ νήμᾰτῐ tôi nḗmati | τοῖν νημᾰ́τοιν toîn nēmátoin | τοῖς νήμᾰσῐ / νήμᾰσῐν toîs nḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ νῆμᾰ tò nêma | τὼ νήμᾰτε tṑ nḗmate | τᾰ̀ νήμᾰτᾰ tà nḗmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | νῆμᾰ nêma | νήμᾰτε nḗmate | νήμᾰτᾰ nḗmata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: νήμα (níma)
- → English: -nema, nemat-
Further reading
- “νῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “νῆμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νῆμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- νῆμα 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- thread idem, page 869.
- twine idem, page 903.
- yarn idem, page 995.