γράμμα
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From γράφω (gráphō, “I write”) + -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
- 5th BC Attic: IPA: /ɡrám.ma/
- 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /ˈɡram.ma/
- 4th AD Koine: IPA: /ˈɣram.ma/
- 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /ˈɣram.ma/
- 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /ˈɣra.ma/
Noun[edit]
γράμμα • (grámma) n (genitive γράμματος); third declension
Inflection[edit]
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ γράμμᾰ | τὼ γράμμᾰτε | τᾰ̀ γράμμᾰτᾰ | |||||||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ γράμμᾰτος | τοῖν γραμμᾰ́τοιν1 | τῶν γραμμᾰ́των | |||||||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ γράμμᾰτῐ | τοῖν γραμμᾰ́τοιν1 | τοῖς γράμμᾰσῐ2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ γράμμᾰ | τὼ γράμμᾰτε | τᾰ̀ γράμμᾰτᾰ | |||||||||||||||||
| Vocative | γράμμᾰ | γράμμᾰτε | γράμμᾰτᾰ | |||||||||||||||||
| Dialectal forms: | 1γραμμᾰ́τοιῐν (Epic) 2γράμμᾰσῐ / γραμμᾰ́τεσσῐ / γραμμᾰ́τεσῐ (Epic) |
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Derived terms[edit]
- γρᾰμμᾰτῐκός (grammatikós)
- γραμματιστής (grammatistḗs)
References[edit]
- γράμμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γράμμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «γράμμα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «γράμμα» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- “G1121”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- «γράμμα» 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.
Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek.
Noun[edit]
γράμμα • (grámma) n (plural γράμματα)
- letter (written or printed symbol)
- (computing) character
- (plural) literature, letters
- Tα γράμματα και οι τέχνες. ― Ta grámmata kai oi téchnes. ― Literature and the arts
- letter (communication)
Declension[edit]
declension of γράμμα
Synonyms[edit]
- (character): χαρακτήρας m (charaktíras)
- (literature): λογοτεχνία f (logotechnía)
- (communication): επιστολή f (epistolí)
Related terms[edit]
- γραμματική f (grammatikí, “grammar”)
- γραμμένος (gramménos, “written”)
- γραμματέας m, f (grammatéas, “secretary”)
- κορώνα ή γράμματα (koróna í grámmata, “heads or tails”)
- and see: γραμματεία f (grammateía, “secretariat”)
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the PIE root *gerbʰ-
- Ancient Greek words suffixed with -μα
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek third declension nouns
- grc:Letters, symbols, and punctuation
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- el:Computing