λῶμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool”), like Latin vellus (“fleece”), or from the same root of Ancient Greek εὔληρα (eúlēra, “rein”), Latin lōrum (“thong”) and Old Armenian լար (lar, “rope”). Beekes finds both these proposals unconvincing.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈlo.ma/ → /ˈlo.ma/

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

Noun

λῶμᾰ • (lôma) n (genitive λώμᾰτος); third declension

1. hem, fringe, border of a robe

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ λῶμᾰ; τοῦ λώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λῶμᾰ tò lôma	τὼ λώμᾰτε tṑ lṓmate	τᾰ̀ λώμᾰτᾰ tà lṓmata
Genitive	τοῦ λώμᾰτος toû lṓmatos	τοῖν λωμᾰ́τοιν toîn lōmátoin	τῶν λωμᾰ́των tôn lōmátōn
Dative	τῷ λώμᾰτῐ tôi lṓmati	τοῖν λωμᾰ́τοιν toîn lōmátoin	τοῖς λώμᾰσῐ / λώμᾰσῐν toîs lṓmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ λῶμᾰ tò lôma	τὼ λώμᾰτε tṑ lṓmate	τᾰ̀ λώμᾰτᾰ tà lṓmata
Vocative	λῶμᾰ lôma	λώμᾰτε lṓmate	λώμᾰτᾰ lṓmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λωμᾰ́τῐον (lōmátion)

Further reading

• “λῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN