φώνημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

φωνέω (phōnéō, “I produce a sound or tone”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ː.nɛː.ma/ → /ˈɸo.ni.ma/ → /ˈfo.ni.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ː.nɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰo.ne̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.ni.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ni.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ni.ma/

Noun

φώνημᾰ • (phṓnēma) n (genitive φωνήματος); third declension

1. sound made, utterance
   1. of a singer’s voice
   2. of a dog’s bark and ass’s bray
2. thing spoken, speech, language

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ φώνημᾰ; τοῦ φωνήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φώνημᾰ tò phṓnēma	τὼ φωνήμᾰτε tṑ phōnḗmate	τᾰ̀ φωνήμᾰτᾰ tà phōnḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ φωνήμᾰτος toû phōnḗmatos	τοῖν φωνημᾰ́τοιν toîn phōnēmátoin	τῶν φωνημᾰ́των tôn phōnēmátōn
Dative	τῷ φωνήμᾰτῐ tôi phōnḗmati	τοῖν φωνημᾰ́τοιν toîn phōnēmátoin	τοῖς φωνήμᾰσῐ / φωνήμᾰσῐν toîs phōnḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ φώνημᾰ tò phṓnēma	τὼ φωνήμᾰτε tṑ phōnḗmate	τᾰ̀ φωνήμᾰτᾰ tà phōnḗmata
Vocative	φώνημᾰ phṓnēma	φωνήμᾰτε phōnḗmate	φωνήμᾰτᾰ phōnḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: φώνημα (fónima)

References

• “φώνημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φώνημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φώνημα 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.
  • speech idem, page 800.
  • utterance idem, page 941.
  • voice idem, page 955.

Greek

Etymology

A reborrowing from French phonème (“phoneme”), from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound made”, “utterance”; “thing spoken”, “speech”, “language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfonima/
• Hyphenation: φώ‧νη‧μα

Noun

φώνημα • (fónima) n (plural φωνήματα)

1. (linguistics) phoneme

Declension

Declension of φώνημα

	singular	plural
nominative	φώνημα •	φωνήματα •
genitive	φωνήματος •	φωνημάτων •
accusative	φώνημα •	φωνήματα •
vocative	φώνημα •	φωνήματα •

Related terms

• see: φωνή n (foní, “sound, voice”)

Further reading

• φώνημα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el