φώνημα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
φωνέω (phōnéō, “I produce a sound or tone”) + -μᾰ (-ma)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰɔ̌ː.nɛː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰo.ne̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸo.ni.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfo.ni.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfo.ni.ma/
Noun
φώνημᾰ • (phṓnēma) n (genitive φωνήματος); third declension
- sound made, utterance
- of a singer’s voice
- of a dog’s bark and ass’s bray
- thing spoken, speech, language
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ φώνημᾰ; τοῦ φωνήμᾰτος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ φώνημᾰ tò phṓnēma | τὼ φωνήμᾰτε tṑ phōnḗmate | τᾰ̀ φωνήμᾰτᾰ tà phōnḗmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φωνήμᾰτος toû phōnḗmatos | τοῖν φωνημᾰ́τοιν toîn phōnēmátoin | τῶν φωνημᾰ́των tôn phōnēmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φωνήμᾰτῐ tôi phōnḗmati | τοῖν φωνημᾰ́τοιν toîn phōnēmátoin | τοῖς φωνήμᾰσῐ / φωνήμᾰσῐν toîs phōnḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ φώνημᾰ tò phṓnēma | τὼ φωνήμᾰτε tṑ phōnḗmate | τᾰ̀ φωνήμᾰτᾰ tà phōnḗmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | φώνημᾰ phṓnēma | φωνήμᾰτε phōnḗmate | φωνήμᾰτᾰ phōnḗmata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: φώνημα (fónima)
References
- “φώνημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φώνημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φώνημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- speech idem, page 800.
- utterance idem, page 941.
- voice idem, page 955.
Greek
Etymology
A reborrowing from French phonème (“phoneme”), from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound made”, “utterance”; “thing spoken”, “speech”, “language”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfonima/
- Hyphenation: φώ‧νη‧μα
Noun
φώνημα • (fónima) n (plural φωνήματα)
- (linguistics) phoneme
Declension
declension of φώνημα
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | φώνημα • | φωνήματα • |
genitive | φωνήματος • | φωνημάτων • |
accusative | φώνημα • | φωνήματα • |
vocative | φώνημα • | φωνήματα • |
Related terms
- see: φωνή n (foní, “sound, voice”)
References
- Georgios Babiniotis (2008), “φώνημα”, in Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας: […] [Dictionary of the New Greek Language] (in Greek), 3rd edition, Athens: Kentro Lexikologias, →ISBN.
Further reading
- φώνημα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el