βῆμα
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *gʷā́mə, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷéh₂mn̥, from *gʷeh₂- (“to step”) (whence ἔβην (ébēn)). Compare βωμός (bōmós).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bɛ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbe̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβi.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvi.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvi.ma/
Noun
[edit]βῆμᾰ • (bêma) n (genitive βήμᾰτος); third declension (Attic, Ionic)
- a step, pace, footfall, gait
- raised place or tribune or podium or pulpit from which men spoke in a public assembly
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βῆμᾰ tò bêma |
τὼ βήμᾰτε tṑ bḗmate |
τᾰ̀ βήμᾰτᾰ tà bḗmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βήμᾰτος toû bḗmatos |
τοῖν βημᾰ́τοιν toîn bēmátoin |
τῶν βημᾰ́των tôn bēmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βήμᾰτῐ tôi bḗmati |
τοῖν βημᾰ́τοιν toîn bēmátoin |
τοῖς βήμᾰσῐ / βήμᾰσῐν toîs bḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βῆμᾰ tò bêma |
τὼ βήμᾰτε tṑ bḗmate |
τᾰ̀ βήμᾰτᾰ tà bḗmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | βῆμᾰ bêma |
βήμᾰτε bḗmate |
βήμᾰτᾰ bḗmata | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- ἐπὶ τὸ βῆμα ἀναβαίνω (epì tò bêma anabaínō, “to enter public life”, literally “to get up onto the tribune”)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: βήμα (víma), Βήμα (Víma)
- → Classical Syriac: ܒܝܡܐ (bēmā)
- → Coptic: ⲃⲏⲙⲁ (bēma)
- → English: bema
- → Hebrew: בִּימָה (bima)
- → Old Armenian: բեմ (bem)
- → Old Georgian: ბემი (bemi)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βαίνω (> DER > From the root βη-: βῆμα)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 192-3
Further reading
[edit]- “βῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeh₂-
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
- Attic Greek
- Ionic Greek