ἔμβαμμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐμβάπτω (embáptō, “I dip in”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ém.bam.ma/ → /ˈem.bam.ma/ → /ˈem.ba.ma/

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

Noun

ἔμβᾰμμᾰ • (émbămmă) n (genitive ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτος); third declension

1. sauce, soup

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ἔμβᾰμμᾰ; τοῦ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔμβᾰμμᾰ tò émbămmă	τὼ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτε tṑ embắmmăte	τᾰ̀ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ tằ embắmmătă
Genitive	τοῦ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτος toû embắmmătos	τοῖν ἐμβᾰμμᾰ́τοιν toîn embămmắtoin	τῶν ἐμβᾰμμᾰ́των tôn embămmắtōn
Dative	τῷ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτῐ tôi embắmmătĭ	τοῖν ἐμβᾰμμᾰ́τοιν toîn embămmắtoin	τοῖς ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰσῐ / ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰσῐν toîs embắmmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ἔμβᾰμμᾰ tò émbămmă	τὼ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτε tṑ embắmmăte	τᾰ̀ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ tằ embắmmătă
Vocative	ἔμβᾰμμᾰ émbămmă	ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτε embắmmăte	ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ embắmmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: embamma

Further reading

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