πόλισμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

πόλις (pólis) +‎ -μα (-ma)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pó.liz.ma/ → /ˈpo.liz.ma/ → /ˈpo.liz.ma/

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

Noun

πολίσμᾰ • (polísma) n (genitive πολίσμᾰτος); third declension

1. the buildings of a city, cityscape

Declension

Third declension of τὸ πόλισμᾰ; τοῦ πολίσμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ πόλισμᾰ tò pólisma
Genitive	τοῦ πολίσμᾰτος toû polísmatos
Dative	τῷ πολίσμᾰτῐ tôi polísmati
Accusative	τὸ πόλισμᾰ tò pólisma
Vocative	πόλισμᾰ pólisma
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• πόλισμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πόλισμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • city idem, page 133.
  • township idem, page 884.