ἔμβλημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐμβάλλω (embállō, “to put in, to lay on”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ém.blɛː.ma/ → /ˈem.bli.ma/ → /ˈem.bli.ma/

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

Noun

ἔμβλημᾰ • (émblēmă) n (genitive ἐμβλήμᾰτος); third declension

1. insertion
2. chased or imbossed ornament
3. graft
4. tessellated work, a mosaic
5. inner sole put into the shoe in winter
6. sluice gate
7. payment; fine

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ἔμβλημᾰ; τοῦ ἐμβλήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔμβλημᾰ tò émblēmă	τὼ ἐμβλήμᾰτε tṑ emblḗmăte	τᾰ̀ ἐμβλήμᾰτᾰ tằ emblḗmătă
Genitive	τοῦ ἐμβλήμᾰτος toû emblḗmătos	τοῖν ἐμβλημᾰ́τοιν toîn emblēmắtoin	τῶν ἐμβλημᾰ́των tôn emblēmắtōn
Dative	τῷ ἐμβλήμᾰτῐ tôi emblḗmătĭ	τοῖν ἐμβλημᾰ́τοιν toîn emblēmắtoin	τοῖς ἐμβλήμᾰσῐ / ἐμβλήμᾰσῐν toîs emblḗmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ἔμβλημᾰ tò émblēmă	τὼ ἐμβλήμᾰτε tṑ emblḗmăte	τᾰ̀ ἐμβλήμᾰτᾰ tằ emblḗmătă
Vocative	ἔμβλημᾰ émblēmă	ἐμβλήμᾰτε emblḗmăte	ἐμβλήμᾰτᾰ emblḗmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: emblēma
  • → English: emblem
  • → French: emblème
  • → Italian: emblema
  • → Russian: эмбле́ма (embléma)

Further reading

• “ἔμβλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἔμβλημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔμβλημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἔμβλημα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011