λῶμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂welh₁- (“hair, wool”), like Latin vellus (“fleece”), or from the same root of Ancient Greek εὔληρα (eúlēra, “rein”), Latin lōrum (“thong”) and Old Armenian լար (lar, “rope”). Beekes finds both these proposals unconvincing.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈlo.ma/ → /ˈlo.ma/

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

Noun

λῶμᾰ • (lômă) n (genitive λώμᾰτος); third declension

1. hem, fringe, border of a robe

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ λῶμᾰ; τοῦ λώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ λῶμᾰ tò lômă	τὼ λώμᾰτε tṑ lṓmăte	τᾰ̀ λώμᾰτᾰ tằ lṓmătă
Genitive	τοῦ λώμᾰτος toû lṓmătos	τοῖν λωμᾰ́τοιν toîn lōmắtoin	τῶν λωμᾰ́των tôn lōmắtōn
Dative	τῷ λώμᾰτῐ tôi lṓmătĭ	τοῖν λωμᾰ́τοιν toîn lōmắtoin	τοῖς λώμᾰσῐ / λώμᾰσῐν toîs lṓmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ λῶμᾰ tò lômă	τὼ λώμᾰτε tṑ lṓmăte	τᾰ̀ λώμᾰτᾰ tằ lṓmătă
Vocative	λῶμᾰ lômă	λώμᾰτε lṓmăte	λώμᾰτᾰ lṓmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• λωμᾰ́τῐον (lōmắtĭon)

Further reading

• “λῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN