κέλευσμα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κέλευμᾰ (kéleumă)

Etymology

From κελεύω (keleúō, “urge, order”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ké.leu̯z.ma/ → /ˈce.leβz.ma/ → /ˈce.levz.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ké.leu̯z.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈke.lewz.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈce.leβz.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈce.levz.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈce.levz.ma/

Noun

κέλευσμᾰ • (kéleusmă) n (genitive κελεύσμᾰτος); third declension

1. an order, command, behest
   1. call, summons

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κέλευσμᾰ; τοῦ κελεύσμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κέλευσμᾰ tò kéleusmă	τὼ κελεύσμᾰτε tṑ keleúsmăte	τᾰ̀ κελεύσμᾰτᾰ tằ keleúsmătă
Genitive	τοῦ κελεύσμᾰτος toû keleúsmătos	τοῖν κελευσμᾰ́τοιν toîn keleusmắtoin	τῶν κελευσμᾰ́των tôn keleusmắtōn
Dative	τῷ κελεύσμᾰτῐ tôi keleúsmătĭ	τοῖν κελευσμᾰ́τοιν toîn keleusmắtoin	τοῖς κελεύσμᾰσῐ / κελεύσμᾰσῐν toîs keleúsmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ κέλευσμᾰ tò kéleusmă	τὼ κελεύσμᾰτε tṑ keleúsmăte	τᾰ̀ κελεύσμᾰτᾰ tằ keleúsmătă
Vocative	κέλευσμᾰ kéleusmă	κελεύσμᾰτε keleúsmăte	κελεύσμᾰτᾰ keleúsmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: celeusma
  • Ligurian: ciüsma (Old Genoese)
    • → Italian: ciurma
      • → Catalan: xurma
      • → French: chiourme
      • → Greek: τσούρμο (tsoúrmo)
      • → Occitan: chorma
    • → Portuguese: chusma
    • → Spanish: chusma
  • Sicilian: chiurma
  • Spanish: saloma

References

• “κέλευσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κέλευσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κέλευσμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2752 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • behest idem, page 71.
  • bidding idem, page 78.
  • boatswain idem, page 87.
  • charge idem, page 125.
  • command idem, page 146.
  • dictation idem, page 222.
  • order idem, page 578.
  • summons idem, page 837.