πρίσμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πρίω (príō, “I saw, I cut”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /príz.ma/ → /ˈpriz.ma/ → /ˈpriz.ma/

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

Noun

πρίσμᾰ • (prísmă) n (genitive πρίσμᾰτος); third declension

1. anything sawn, sawdust
2. (Koine) prism

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ πρῐ́σμᾰ; τοῦ πρῐ́σμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πρῐ́σμᾰ tò prĭ́smă	τὼ πρῐ́σμᾰτε tṑ prĭ́smăte	τᾰ̀ πρῐ́σμᾰτᾰ tằ prĭ́smătă
Genitive	τοῦ πρῐ́σμᾰτος toû prĭ́smătos	τοῖν πρῐσμᾰ́τοιν toîn prĭsmắtoin	τῶν πρῐσμᾰ́των tôn prĭsmắtōn
Dative	τῷ πρῐ́σμᾰτῐ tôi prĭ́smătĭ	τοῖν πρῐσμᾰ́τοιν toîn prĭsmắtoin	τοῖς πρῐ́σμᾰσῐ / πρῐ́σμᾰσῐν toîs prĭ́smăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ πρῐ́σμᾰ tò prĭ́smă	τὼ πρῐ́σμᾰτε tṑ prĭ́smăte	τᾰ̀ πρῐ́σμᾰτᾰ tằ prĭ́smătă
Vocative	πρῐ́σμᾰ prĭ́smă	πρῐ́σμᾰτε prĭ́smăte	πρῐ́σμᾰτᾰ prĭ́smătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek πρίσμα (prísma, “prism”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French prisme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾi.zma/

Noun

πρίσμα • (prísma) n (plural πρίσματα)

1. (physics, mathematics) prism
3. point of view

   Synonym: σκοπιά (skopiá)

Declension

Declension of πρίσμα

	singular	plural
nominative	πρίσμα (prísma)	πρίσματα (prísmata)
genitive	πρίσματος (prísmatos)	πρισμάτων (prismáton)
accusative	πρίσμα (prísma)	πρίσματα (prísmata)
vocative	πρίσμα (prísma)	πρίσματα (prísmata)

Further reading

• πρίσμα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• πρίσμα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language