γλαύκωμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From γλαυκόω (glaukóō, “to color blue-grey”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡlǎu̯.kɔː.ma/ → /ˈɣlaɸ.ko.ma/ → /ˈɣlaf.ko.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɡlǎu̯.kɔː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaʍ.ko.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣlaɸ.ko.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈɣlaf.ko.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈɣlaf.ko.ma/

Noun

γλαύκωμᾰ • (glaúkōmă) n (genitive γλαυκώμᾰτος); third declension

1. (pathology) cataract (opacity of the lens in the eye)

Declension

Third declension of τὸ γλαύκωμᾰ; τοῦ γλαυκώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ γλαύκωμᾰ tò glaúkōmă	τὼ γλαυκώμᾰτε tṑ glaukṓmăte	τᾰ̀ γλαυκώμᾰτᾰ tằ glaukṓmătă
Genitive	τοῦ γλαυκώμᾰτος toû glaukṓmătos	τοῖν γλαυκωμᾰ́τοιν toîn glaukōmắtoin	τῶν γλαυκωμᾰ́των tôn glaukōmắtōn
Dative	τῷ γλαυκώμᾰτῐ tôi glaukṓmătĭ	τοῖν γλαυκωμᾰ́τοιν toîn glaukōmắtoin	τοῖς γλαυκώμᾰσῐ / γλαυκώμᾰσῐν toîs glaukṓmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ γλαύκωμᾰ tò glaúkōmă	τὼ γλαυκώμᾰτε tṑ glaukṓmăte	τᾰ̀ γλαυκώμᾰτᾰ tằ glaukṓmătă
Vocative	γλαύκωμᾰ glaúkōmă	γλαυκώμᾰτε glaukṓmăte	γλαυκώμᾰτᾰ glaukṓmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: γλαύκωμα (gláfkoma)
• → Latin: glaucōma (see there for further descendants)
• → Russian: глауко́ма (glaukóma)
  • → Kazakh: глаукома (glaukoma)

Further reading

• γλαύκωμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• γλαύκωμα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• γλαύκωμα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “γλαύκωμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Greek

Noun

γλαύκωμα • (gláfkoma) n (plural γλαυκώματα)

1. (medicine) glaucoma

Declension

Declension of γλαύκωμα

	singular	plural
nominative	γλαύκωμα (gláfkoma)	γλαυκώματα (glafkómata)
genitive	γλαυκώματος (glafkómatos)	γλαυκωμάτων (glafkomáton)
accusative	γλαύκωμα (gláfkoma)	γλαυκώματα (glafkómata)
vocative	γλαύκωμα (gláfkoma)	γλαυκώματα (glafkómata)

Further reading

• γλαύκωμα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el