ὅραμα

See also: όραμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὁράω (horáō, “to see”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hó.raː.ma/ → /ˈo.ra.ma/ → /ˈo.ra.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.raː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.ra.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.ma/

Noun

ὅρᾱμᾰ • (hórāmă) n (genitive ὁρᾱ́μᾰτος); third declension

1. that which is seen, a visible object, a sight
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On the Soul 3.3
   1. a sight, spectacle
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.66
   2. (Koine) a sensory experience, such as a dream, not necessarily restricted to sight
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 46.2
2. an object of speculation, a speculation
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Republic 1.2.12

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ὅρᾱμᾰ; τοῦ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ὅρᾱμᾰ tò hórāmă	τὼ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτε tṑ horā́măte	τᾰ̀ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτᾰ tằ horā́mătă
Genitive	τοῦ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτος toû horā́mătos	τοῖν ὁρᾱμᾰ́τοιν toîn horāmắtoin	τῶν ὁρᾱμᾰ́των tôn horāmắtōn
Dative	τῷ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτῐ tôi horā́mătĭ	τοῖν ὁρᾱμᾰ́τοιν toîn horāmắtoin	τοῖς ὁρᾱ́μᾰσῐ / ὁρᾱ́μᾰσῐν toîs horā́măsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ ὅρᾱμᾰ tò hórāmă	τὼ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτε tṑ horā́măte	τᾰ̀ ὁρᾱ́μᾰτᾰ tằ horā́mătă
Vocative	ὅρᾱμᾰ hórāmă	ὁρᾱ́μᾰτε horā́măte	ὁρᾱ́μᾰτᾰ horā́mătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: όραμα (órama)
• English: -orama

Further reading

• “ὅραμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὅραμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὅραμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G3705 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible