πτῶμα

See also: πτώμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”) +‎ -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ptɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈpto.ma/ → /ˈpto.ma/

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

Noun

πτῶμα • (ptôma) n (genitive πτώματος); third declension

1. fall
2. misfortune, calamity, defeat
3. one who has fallen: corpse, dead body
4. of buildings: ruin

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ πτῶμᾰ; τοῦ πτώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πτῶμᾰ tò ptôma	τὼ πτώμᾰτε tṑ ptṓmate	τᾰ̀ πτώμᾰτᾰ tà ptṓmata
Genitive	τοῦ πτώμᾰτος toû ptṓmatos	τοῖν πτωμᾰ́τοιν toîn ptōmátoin	τῶν πτωμᾰ́των tôn ptōmátōn
Dative	τῷ πτώμᾰτῐ tôi ptṓmati	τοῖν πτωμᾰ́τοιν toîn ptōmátoin	τοῖς πτώμᾰσῐ / πτώμᾰσῐν toîs ptṓmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ πτῶμᾰ tò ptôma	τὼ πτώμᾰτε tṑ ptṓmate	τᾰ̀ πτώμᾰτᾰ tà ptṓmata
Vocative	πτῶμᾰ ptôma	πτώμᾰτε ptṓmate	πτώμᾰτᾰ ptṓmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “πτῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πτῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πτῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G4430 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.
  • collapse idem, page 142.
  • corpse idem, page 174.
  • downfall idem, page 249.
  • fall idem, page 303.
  • plunge idem, page 622.
  • slip idem, page 784.