ἄρτημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀρτάω (artáō, “fasten”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ár.tɛː.ma/ → /ˈar.ti.ma/ → /ˈar.ti.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ár.tɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈar.te̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ti.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ti.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ti.ma/

Noun

ἄρτημᾰ • (ártēma) n (genitive ἀρτήμᾰτος); third declension

1. earring

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ἄρτημᾰ; τοῦ ἀρτήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄρτημᾰ tò ártēma	τὼ ἀρτήμᾰτε tṑ artḗmate	τᾰ̀ ἀρτήμᾰτᾰ tà artḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρτήμᾰτος toû artḗmatos	τοῖν ἀρτημᾰ́τοιν toîn artēmátoin	τῶν ἀρτημᾰ́των tôn artēmátōn
Dative	τῷ ἀρτήμᾰτῐ tôi artḗmati	τοῖν ἀρτημᾰ́τοιν toîn artēmátoin	τοῖς ἀρτήμᾰσῐ / ἀρτήμᾰσῐν toîs artḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ἄρτημᾰ tò ártēma	τὼ ἀρτήμᾰτε tṑ artḗmate	τᾰ̀ ἀρτήμᾰτᾰ tà artḗmata
Vocative	ἄρτημᾰ ártēma	ἀρτήμᾰτε artḗmate	ἀρτήμᾰτᾰ artḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “ἄρτημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄρτημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄρτημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄρτημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἄρτημα 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