χύμα
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *kʰumə, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewmn̥, from *ǵʰew- (“to pour”), whence χέω (khéō).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰý.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰy.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçy.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçy.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçi.ma/
Noun
[edit]χῠ́μᾰ • (khúma) n (genitive χῠ́μᾰτος); third declension
- that which is poured out or flows, fluid
- ingot, bar
- (figurative) confused mass, aggregate, crowd
- materials, constituents
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ χῠ́μᾰ tò khúma |
τὼ χῠ́μᾰτε tṑ khúmate |
τᾰ̀ χῠ́μᾰτᾰ tà khúmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χῠ́μᾰτος toû khúmatos |
τοῖν χῠμᾰ́τοιν toîn khumátoin |
τῶν χῠμᾰ́των tôn khumátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χῠ́μᾰτῐ tôi khúmati |
τοῖν χῠμᾰ́τοιν toîn khumátoin |
τοῖς χῠ́μᾰσῐ / χῠ́μᾰσῐν toîs khúmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ χῠ́μᾰ tò khúma |
τὼ χῠ́μᾰτε tṑ khúmate |
τᾰ̀ χῠ́μᾰτᾰ tà khúmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | χῠ́μᾰ khúma |
χῠ́μᾰτε khúmate |
χῠ́μᾰτᾰ khúmata | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- ?χυμεία (khumeía)
Further reading
[edit]- “χύμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χύμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χύμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χύμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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, pages 1627-8; 1653
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a derivative of Ancient Greek χέω (khéō, “I pour”), along with χυμός (khumós, “juice”).
Adverb
[edit]χύμα • (chýma)
- at bulk, not in a standardised package (for things sold in retail (by volume or weight) in portions at client's discretion, usually from a bigger package)
- untidy, disorganized
References
[edit]- Oswald, John (1868): An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
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- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
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