τρῆμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From τετραίνω (tetraínō, “to perforate”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /trɛ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtre̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtri.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtri.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtri.ma/
Noun
τρῆμᾰ • (trêma) n (genitive τρήμᾰτος); third declension
- hole, aperture, perforation
Declension
Third declension of τὸ τρῆμᾰ; τοῦ τρήμᾰτος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ τρῆμᾰ tò trêma | τὼ τρήμᾰτε tṑ trḗmate | τᾰ̀ τρήμᾰτᾰ tà trḗmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τρήμᾰτος toû trḗmatos | τοῖν τρημᾰ́τοιν toîn trēmátoin | τῶν τρημᾰ́των tôn trēmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τρήμᾰτῐ tôi trḗmati | τοῖν τρημᾰ́τοιν toîn trēmátoin | τοῖς τρήμᾰσῐ / τρήμᾰσῐν toîs trḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ τρῆμᾰ tò trêma | τὼ τρήμᾰτε tṑ trḗmate | τᾰ̀ τρήμᾰτᾰ tà trḗmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | τρῆμᾰ trêma | τρήμᾰτε trḗmate | τρήμᾰτᾰ trḗmata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: trema, -treme
- → French: tréma
- Greek: τρήμα (tríma)
Further reading
- “τρῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τρῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τρῆμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τρῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette