βρῶμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “I eat”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma, object noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /brɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈβro.ma/ → /ˈvro.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brɔ̂ː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbro.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβro.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.ma/

Noun

βρῶμᾰ • (brôma) n (genitive βρώμᾰτος); third declension

1. a shipworm (Teredo navalis) that bores into wooden piers, ships, etc.
2. that which is eaten, food, meat
3. (dentistry) cavity

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ βρῶμᾰ; τοῦ βρώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βρῶμᾰ tò brôma	τὼ βρώμᾰτε tṑ brṓmate	τᾰ̀ βρώμᾰτᾰ tà brṓmata
Genitive	τοῦ βρώμᾰτος toû brṓmatos	τοῖν βρωμᾰ́τοιν toîn brōmátoin	τῶν βρωμᾰ́των tôn brōmátōn
Dative	τῷ βρώμᾰτῐ tôi brṓmati	τοῖν βρωμᾰ́τοιν toîn brōmátoin	τοῖς βρώμᾰσῐ / βρώμᾰσῐν toîs brṓmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ βρῶμᾰ tò brôma	τὼ βρώμᾰτε tṑ brṓmate	τᾰ̀ βρώμᾰτᾰ tà brṓmata
Vocative	βρῶμᾰ brôma	βρώμᾰτε brṓmate	βρώμᾰτᾰ brṓmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Italian: bruma
• → Sicilian: bromu
  • → Maltese: bram
• → Spanish: broma

Further reading

• “βρῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βρῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βρῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• βρῶμα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1033 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • food idem, page 333.