θέμα
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From τῐ́θημῐ (títhēmi, “to set, put, place”) + -μᾰ (-ma, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰé.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰe.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθe.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθe.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθe.ma/
Noun edit
θέμᾰ • (théma) n (genitive θέμᾰτος); third declension
- That which is placed or laid down.
- Position, situation. (of land)
- (astrology) Nativity, horoscope.
- Common burial place or common land; private burial ground.
- Something proposed as a prize.
- Case proposed for discussion, theme of an argument.
- Proposition, premiss.
- (law) Case.
- Arbitrary determination.
- (grammar) Primary (nonderivative) element or form.
- Etymologicum Magnum 88.13:
- “τὸ θέμα, ἀμύσσω: ὁ μέλλων, ἀμύξω
- “tò théma, amússō: ho méllōn, amúxō
- “The primary form [ie present tense] is ἀμύσσω [I scratch], the future is ἀμύξω [I will scratch].
- “τὸ θέμα, ἀμύσσω: ὁ μέλλων, ἀμύξω
- (logic, Stoic) Mode of reduction of an irregular syllogism.
- A Theme, the regional unit of government of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine empire approximately from the 7th to the 11th century.
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ θέμᾰ tò théma |
τὼ θέμᾰτε tṑ thémate |
τᾰ̀ θέμᾰτᾰ tà thémata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ θέμᾰτος toû thématos |
τοῖν θεμᾰ́τοιν toîn themátoin |
τῶν θεμᾰ́των tôn themátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ θέμᾰτῐ tôi thémati |
τοῖν θεμᾰ́τοιν toîn themátoin |
τοῖς θέμᾰσῐ / θέμᾰσῐν toîs thémasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ θέμᾰ tò théma |
τὼ θέμᾰτε tṑ thémate |
τᾰ̀ θέμᾰτᾰ tà thémata | ||||||||||
Vocative | θέμᾰ théma |
θέμᾰτε thémate |
θέμᾰτᾰ thémata | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
- → Latin: thema
- → Old Georgian: [Term?]
References edit
- “θέμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θέμα 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
- θέμα 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
- θέμα - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek θέμᾰ (théma).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
θέμα • (théma) n (plural θέματα)
- subject, main topic (of conversation, etc)
- affair
- (music) theme
- (linguistics) stem
- theme, the regional unit of government of the Byzantine empire.