σπιθαμή
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editThe formation is similar to παλάμη (palámē, “palm of the hand”), δόχμη (dókhmē, “breadth of the hand”) and πυγμή (pugmḗ, “distance between the elbow and the knuckles”). According to Beekes, it's probably from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /spi.tʰa.mɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /spi.tʰaˈme̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /spi.θaˈmi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /spi.θaˈmi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /spi.θaˈmi/
Noun
editσπῐθᾰμή • (spithamḗ) f (genitive σπῐθᾰμῆς); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σπῐθᾰμή hē spithamḗ |
τὼ σπῐθᾰμᾱ́ tṑ spithamā́ |
αἱ σπῐθᾰμαί hai spithamaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σπῐθᾰμῆς tês spithamês |
τοῖν σπῐθᾰμαῖν toîn spithamaîn |
τῶν σπῐθᾰμῶν tôn spithamôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σπῐθᾰμῇ têi spithamêi |
τοῖν σπῐθᾰμαῖν toîn spithamaîn |
ταῖς σπῐθᾰμαῖς taîs spithamaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σπῐθᾰμήν tḕn spithamḗn |
τὼ σπῐθᾰμᾱ́ tṑ spithamā́ |
τᾱ̀ς σπῐθᾰμᾱ́ς tā̀s spithamā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | σπῐθᾰμή spithamḗ |
σπῐθᾰμᾱ́ spithamā́ |
σπῐθᾰμαί spithamaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- σπιθαμιαῖος (spithamiaîos)
- τρισπίθαμος (trispíthamos)
Further reading
edit- “σπιθαμή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σπιθαμή 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
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension
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