ἅλμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἅλλομαι (hállomai, “to jump, to leap”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hál.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)al.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈal.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈal.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈal.ma/
Noun
ἅλμᾰ • (hálma) n (genitive ἅλμᾰτος); third declension
- spring, leap
- jumping, as an athletic contest
- (medicine) pulsation, palpitation (of the embryo or of the heart)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̔́λμᾰ tò hálma |
τὼ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτε tṑ hálmate |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτᾰ tà hálmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτος toû hálmatos |
τοῖν ᾰ̔λμᾰ́τοιν toîn halmátoin |
τῶν ᾰ̔λμᾰ́των tôn halmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτῐ tôi hálmati |
τοῖν ᾰ̔λμᾰ́τοιν toîn halmátoin |
τοῖς ᾰ̔́λμᾰσῐ / ᾰ̔́λμᾰσῐν toîs hálmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̔́λμᾰ tò hálma |
τὼ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτε tṑ hálmate |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτᾰ tà hálmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̔́λμᾰ hálma |
ᾰ̔́λμᾰτε hálmate |
ᾰ̔́λμᾰτᾰ hálmata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: άλμα (álma)
Synonyms
- πήδημα (pḗdēma)
Further reading
- “ἅλμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἅλμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μα
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
- grc:Medicine