ἀτμός

See also: ατμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

For *ἀετμός (*aetmós), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-. See ἄημι (áēmi).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /aːt.mós/ → /atˈmos/ → /atˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /aːt.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /atˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /atˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /atˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /atˈmos/

Noun

ἀτμός • (atmós) m (genitive ἀτμοῦ); second declension

1. vapour, steam, smoke

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἀτμός; τοῦ ἀτμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀτμός ho atmós	τὼ ἀτμώ tṑ atmṓ	οἱ ἀτμοί hoi atmoí
Genitive	τοῦ ἀτμοῦ toû atmoû	τοῖν ἀτμοῖν toîn atmoîn	τῶν ἀτμῶν tôn atmôn
Dative	τῷ ἀτμῷ tôi atmôi	τοῖν ἀτμοῖν toîn atmoîn	τοῖς ἀτμοῖς toîs atmoîs
Accusative	τὸν ἀτμόν tòn atmón	τὼ ἀτμώ tṑ atmṓ	τοὺς ἀτμούς toùs atmoús
Vocative	ἀτμέ atmé	ἀτμώ atmṓ	ἀτμοί atmoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: atmo-
• Greek: ατμός (atmós)

Further reading

• “ἀτμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀτμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀτμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀτμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἀτμός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • exhalation idem, page 291.
  • fume idem, page 349.
  • reek idem, page 684.
  • smoke idem, page 787.
  • steam idem, page 814.
  • vapour idem, page 944.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag