λῦμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”) + -μᾰ (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lŷː.ma/ → /ˈly.ma/ → /ˈli.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lŷː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈly.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ma/

Noun

λῦμᾰ • (lûma) n (genitive λῡ́μᾰτος); third declension

1. water used in washing, bathwater
2. dirt removed by washing, offscouring
3. moral filth, defilement

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ λῦμᾰ; τοῦ λῡ́μᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λῦμᾰ tò lûma	τὼ λῡ́μᾰτε tṑ lū́mate	τᾰ̀ λῡ́μᾰτᾰ tà lū́mata
Genitive	τοῦ λῡ́μᾰτος toû lū́matos	τοῖν λῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn lūmátoin	τῶν λῡμᾰ́των tôn lūmátōn
Dative	τῷ λῡ́μᾰτῐ tôi lū́mati	τοῖν λῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn lūmátoin	τοῖς λῡ́μᾰσῐ / λῡ́μᾰσῐν toîs lū́masi(n)
Accusative	τὸ λῦμᾰ tò lûma	τὼ λῡ́μᾰτε tṑ lū́mate	τᾰ̀ λῡ́μᾰτᾰ tà lū́mata
Vocative	λῦμᾰ lûma	λῡ́μᾰτε lū́mate	λῡ́μᾰτᾰ lū́mata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: λύμα (lýma)

Further reading

• “λῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λῦμα 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bane idem, page 61.
  • contamination idem, page 166.
  • defilement idem, page 205.
  • desecration idem, page 215.
  • infection idem, page 437.
  • pest idem, page 609.
  • plague idem, page 616.
  • plague-spot idem, page 616.
  • pollution idem, page 625.
  • scourge idem, page 741.
  • stain idem, page 809.
  • taint idem, page 852.