ἔμβλημα
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom ἐμβάλλω (embállō, “to put in, to lay on”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ém.blɛː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈem.ble̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈem.bli.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈem.bli.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈem.bli.ma/
Noun
editἔμβλημᾰ • (émblēma) n (genitive ἐμβλήμᾰτος); third declension
- insertion
- chased or imbossed ornament
- graft
- tessellated work, a mosaic
- inner sole put into the shoe in winter
- sluice gate
- payment; fine
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἔμβλημᾰ tò émblēma |
τὼ ἐμβλήμᾰτε tṑ emblḗmate |
τᾰ̀ ἐμβλήμᾰτᾰ tà emblḗmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἐμβλήμᾰτος toû emblḗmatos |
τοῖν ἐμβλημᾰ́τοιν toîn emblēmátoin |
τῶν ἐμβλημᾰ́των tôn emblēmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἐμβλήμᾰτῐ tôi emblḗmati |
τοῖν ἐμβλημᾰ́τοιν toîn emblēmátoin |
τοῖς ἐμβλήμᾰσῐ / ἐμβλήμᾰσῐν toîs emblḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἔμβλημᾰ tò émblēma |
τὼ ἐμβλήμᾰτε tṑ emblḗmate |
τᾰ̀ ἐμβλήμᾰτᾰ tà emblḗmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἔμβλημᾰ émblēma |
ἐμβλήμᾰτε emblḗmate |
ἐμβλήμᾰτᾰ emblḗmata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- → Latin: emblēma
Further reading
edit- “ἔμβλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔμβλημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔμβλημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἔμβλημα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μα
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
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