κάλυμμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover, to conceal”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.lym.ma/ → /ˈka.lym.ma/ → /ˈka.li.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.lym.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.lym.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.lym.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.lym.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.li.ma/

Noun

κάλυμμᾰ • (kálummă) n (genitive καλύμμᾰτος); third declension

1. A head covering, a hood, a veil
2. A fishing net shaped like a sack
3. (anatomy) A skull (as the brain's covering)
4. A grave
5. (zoology) The covering of the gills of fish
6. The covering of honeycomb
7. The shell of fruits
8. A shutter

Declension

Third declension of τὸ κάλυμμᾰ; τοῦ καλύμμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κάλυμμᾰ tò kálummă	τὼ καλύμμᾰτε tṑ kalúmmăte	τᾰ̀ καλύμμᾰτᾰ tằ kalúmmătă
Genitive	τοῦ καλύμμᾰτος toû kalúmmătos	τοῖν καλυμμᾰ́τοιν toîn kalummắtoin	τῶν καλυμμᾰ́των tôn kalummắtōn
Dative	τῷ καλύμμᾰτῐ tôi kalúmmătĭ	τοῖν καλυμμᾰ́τοιν toîn kalummắtoin	τοῖς καλύμμᾰσῐ / καλύμμᾰσῐν toîs kalúmmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ κάλυμμᾰ tò kálummă	τὼ καλύμμᾰτε tṑ kalúmmăte	τᾰ̀ καλύμμᾰτᾰ tằ kalúmmătă
Vocative	κάλυμμᾰ kálummă	καλύμμᾰτε kalúmmăte	καλύμμᾰτᾰ kalúmmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Aramaic: גלימא (galīmā)
• → Persian: گلیم (gelim)
  • → Bashkir: келәм (keləm)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: गिलीम (gilīm)

    Urdu: گلیم (gilīm)

    • → Kazakh: кілем (kılem)
    • → Khalaj: gelîm
    • → Kyrgyz: килем (kilem)
    • → Uyghur: گىلەم (gilem)
    • → Uzbek: gilam
    • → Ottoman Turkish: كلیم (kilim, “carpet, rug”)
      • Turkish: kilim
      • → Albanian: qilim, qylym
      • → Armenian: քիլիմ (kʻilim)
      • → Arabic: كِلِيم (kilīm)
      • → Belarusian: кілі́м (kilím)
        • → Lithuanian: kilimas
      • → Bulgarian: кили́м (kilím)
      • → Greek: κιλίμι (kilími)
      • → Macedonian: ќилим (ḱilim)
      • → Pannonian Rusyn: килим (kilim)
      • → Romanian: chilim
      • → Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic script: ћѝлим

        Latin script: ćìlim

      • → Ukrainian: ки́лим (kýlym)

  References

  Further reading

  • “κάλυμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • κάλυμμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

  Greek

  Pronunciation

  • IPA^(key): /ˈka.li.ma/
  • Hyphenation: κά‧λυμ‧μα

  Noun

  κάλυμμα • (kálymma) n (plural καλύμματα)

  1. cover, hood, lid, cap

  Declension

  Declension of κάλυμμα

  	singular	plural
  nominative	κάλυμμα (kálymma)	καλύμματα (kalýmmata)
  genitive	καλύμματος (kalýmmatos)	καλυμμάτων (kalymmáton)
  accusative	κάλυμμα (kálymma)	καλύμματα (kalýmmata)
  vocative	κάλυμμα (kálymma)	καλύμματα (kalýmmata)