τόλμα
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- τόλμη (tólmē)
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“to bear”), like τελαμών (telamṓn, “strap, belt”) and τάλαντον (tálanton, “balance, scale”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tól.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtol.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtol.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtol.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtol.ma/
Noun
[edit]τόλμᾰ • (tólma) f (genitive τόλμης); first declension
- courage, hardihood
- Synonym: θάρσος (thársos)
- recklessness, overboldness
- bold or daring act
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τόλμᾰ hē tólma |
τὼ τόλμᾱ tṑ tólmā |
αἱ τόλμαι hai tólmai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τόλμης tês tólmēs |
τοῖν τόλμαιν toîn tólmain |
τῶν τολμῶν tôn tolmôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τόλμῃ têi tólmēi |
τοῖν τόλμαιν toîn tólmain |
ταῖς τόλμαις taîs tólmais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τόλμᾰν tḕn tólman |
τὼ τόλμᾱ tṑ tólmā |
τᾱ̀ς τόλμᾱς tā̀s tólmās | ||||||||||
Vocative | τόλμᾰ tólma |
τόλμᾱ tólmā |
τόλμαι tólmai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “τόλμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τόλμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- τόλμα 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
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *telh₂- (bear)
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension