ὅραμα

See also: όραμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὁράω (horáō, “to see”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hó.raː.ma/ → /ˈo.ra.ma/ → /ˈo.ra.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.raː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.ra.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.ma/

Noun

ὅρᾱμᾰ • (hórāma) n (genitive ὁρᾱ́μᾰτος); third declension

1. that which is seen, a visible object, a sight
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Soul 3.3
   1. a sight, spectacle
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.66
   2. (Koine) a sensory experience, such as a dream, not necessarily restricted to sight
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 46.2
2. an object of speculation, a speculation
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Republic 1.2.12

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ὅρᾱμᾰ; τοῦ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὅρᾱμᾰ tò hórāma	τὼ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτε tṑ horā́mate	τᾰ̀ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτᾰ tà horā́mata
Genitive	τοῦ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτος toû horā́matos	τοῖν ὁρᾱμᾰ́τοιν toîn horāmátoin	τῶν ὁρᾱμᾰ́των tôn horāmátōn
Dative	τῷ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτῐ tôi horā́mati	τοῖν ὁρᾱμᾰ́τοιν toîn horāmátoin	τοῖς ὁρᾱ́μᾰσῐ / ὁρᾱ́μᾰσῐν toîs horā́masi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ὅρᾱμᾰ tò hórāma	τὼ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτε tṑ horā́mate	τᾰ̀ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτᾰ tà horā́mata
Vocative	ὅρᾱμᾰ hórāma	ὁρᾱ́μᾰτε horā́mate	ὁρᾱ́μᾰτᾰ horā́mata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: όραμα (órama)
• English: -orama

Further reading

• “ὅραμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὅραμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅραμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3705 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible