βρέγμα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βρεγμός (bregmós)
• βρεχμός (brekhmós)
• βρέχμα (brékhma)

Etymology

Originally βρέχμα (brékhma), βρεχμός (brekhmós); the ⟨γ⟩ has resulted from voicing assimilation. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mregʰ- (“brain, skull”) and cognate with English brain.

Noun

βρέγμᾱ • (brégmā) n (genitive βρέγμης); first declension

1. the bone directly above the brain, (anatomy) bregma; brainpan

   Aristotle, Historia Animalum 495a.10.

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βρέγμᾱ; τῆς βρέγμης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βρέγμᾱ hē brégmā	τὼ βρέγμᾱ tṑ brégmā	αἱ βρέγμαι hai brégmai
Genitive	τῆς βρέγμης tês brégmēs	τοῖν βρέγμαιν toîn brégmain	τῶν βρεγμῶν tôn bregmôn
Dative	τῇ βρέγμῃ têi brégmēi	τοῖν βρέγμαιν toîn brégmain	ταῖς βρέγμαις taîs brégmais
Accusative	τὴν βρέγμην tḕn brégmēn	τὼ βρέγμᾱ tṑ brégmā	τᾱ̀ς βρέγμᾱς tā̀s brégmās
Vocative	βρέγμᾱ brégmā	βρέγμᾱ brégmā	βρέγμαι brégmai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: bregma

References

• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βρεχμός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 238
• “βρέγμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βρέγμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βρέγμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βρέγμα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• βρέγμα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften