σύστημα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From σῠνῐ́στημῐ (sunístēmi, “I place together, associate, unite”) + -μᾰ (-ma).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sýs.tɛː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsys.te̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsys.ti.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsys.ti.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsis.ti.ma/
Noun
σύστημᾰ • (sústēma) n (genitive συστήμᾰτος); third declension
- a whole made of several parts or members.
- an organized government, confederacy
- a body of soldiers, corps
- flock, herd
- college of priests or magistrates
- (music) the combination of several tones
- the combination of several verses into a whole composition
- the accumulation of sediment
- machine, apparatus
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σύστημᾰ tò sústēma |
τὼ συστήμᾰτε tṑ sustḗmate |
τᾰ̀ συστήμᾰτᾰ tà sustḗmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ συστήμᾰτος toû sustḗmatos |
τοῖν συστημᾰ́τοιν toîn sustēmátoin |
τῶν συστημᾰ́των tôn sustēmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ συστήμᾰτῐ tôi sustḗmati |
τοῖν συστημᾰ́τοιν toîn sustēmátoin |
τοῖς συστήμᾰσῐ / συστήμᾰσῐν toîs sustḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σύστημᾰ tò sústēma |
τὼ συστήμᾰτε tṑ sustḗmate |
τᾰ̀ συστήμᾰτᾰ tà sustḗmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | σύστημᾰ sústēma |
συστήμᾰτε sustḗmate |
συστήμᾰτᾰ sustḗmata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: systēma (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: систе́ма f (sistéma)
- → Uyghur: سىستېما (sistëma)
Further reading
- “σύστημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σύστημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σύστημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma).
Noun
σύστημα • (sýstima) n (plural συστήματα)
Declension
Declension of σύστημα
singular | plural | |
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nominative | σύστημα • | συστήματα • |
genitive | συστήματος • | συστημάτων • |
accusative | σύστημα • | συστήματα • |
vocative | σύστημα • | συστήματα • |
Derived terms
- αναπαραγωγικό σύστημα n (anaparagogikó sýstima, “reproductive system”)
- δεκαδικό σύστημα n (dekadikó sýstima, “decimal system”)
- διεθνές σύστημα μονάδων n (diethnés sýstima monádon, “International System of Units”)
- Εθνικό Σύστημα Υγείας n (Ethnikó Sýstima Ygeías, “National Health Service”)
- ηλιακό σύστημα n (iliakó sýstima, “solar system”)
- λειτουργικό σύστημα n (leitourgikó sýstima, “operating system”)
Further reading
- σύστημα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
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