phyma

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

phyma (plural phymas or phymata)

1. (medicine) A tubercle on any external part of the body.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phyma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φῦμα (phûma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰyː.ma/, [ˈpʰyːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.ma/, [ˈfiːmä]

Noun

phȳma n (genitive phȳmatis); third declension

1. (pathology) A kind of boil or tumour

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	phȳma	phȳmata
Genitive	phȳmatis	phȳmatum
Dative	phȳmatī	phȳmatibus
Accusative	phȳma	phȳmata
Ablative	phȳmate	phȳmatibus
Vocative	phȳma	phȳmata

References

• “phyma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• phyma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.