πέμμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πέσσω (péssō, “I cook, I bake”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pém.ma/ → /ˈpem.ma/ → /ˈpe.ma/

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

Noun

πέμμᾰ • (pémmă) n (genitive πέμμᾰτος); third declension

1. Any kind of dressed food; pastry, cakes, sweetmeats

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ πέμμᾰ; τοῦ πέμμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέμμᾰ tò pémmă	τὼ πέμμᾰτε tṑ pémmăte	τᾰ̀ πέμμᾰτᾰ tằ pémmătă
Genitive	τοῦ πέμμᾰτος toû pémmătos	τοῖν πεμμᾰ́τοιν toîn pemmắtoin	τῶν πεμμᾰ́των tôn pemmắtōn
Dative	τῷ πέμμᾰτῐ tôi pémmătĭ	τοῖν πεμμᾰ́τοιν toîn pemmắtoin	τοῖς πέμμᾰσῐ / πέμμᾰσῐν toîs pémmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ πέμμᾰ tò pémmă	τὼ πέμμᾰτε tṑ pémmăte	τᾰ̀ πέμμᾰτᾰ tằ pémmătă
Vocative	πέμμᾰ pémmă	πέμμᾰτε pémmăte	πέμμᾰτᾰ pémmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: pemma

Further reading

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