ἅρμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἁρμός (harmós, “join”), from ἀραρίσκω (ararískō, “join, fit together”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hár.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈ(h)ar.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈar.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈar.ma/
Noun
ᾰ̔́ρμᾰ • (hárma) n (genitive ᾰ̔́ρμᾰτος); third declension
- chariot
- Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 9, 54, in Ralph Marcus (tr. & ed.), Josephus with an English translation, vol. 6 (Jewish Antiquities, books IX–XI), LCL, pages 30-31. Translation by Marcus, comment in square brackets not his.
- πέμπει τοιγαροῦν Ἄδαδος ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν δύναμιν πολλὴν ἵππων καὶ ἁρμάτων, ὅπως τὸν Ἐλισσαῖον λάβωσιν.
- pémpei toigaroûn Ádados epì tḕn pólin dúnamin pollḕn híppōn kaì harmátōn, hópōs tòn Elissaîon lábōsin.
- Accordingly, Adados [Ben-Hadad] sent to that city a great force with horses and chariots in order to take Elisha.
- Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 9, 54, in Ralph Marcus (tr. & ed.), Josephus with an English translation, vol. 6 (Jewish Antiquities, books IX–XI), LCL, pages 30-31. Translation by Marcus, comment in square brackets not his.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ᾰ̔́ρμᾰ tò hárma |
τὼ ᾰ̔́ρμᾰτε tṑ hármate |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́ρμᾰτᾰ tà hármata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ᾰ̔́ρμᾰτος toû hármatos |
τοῖν ᾰ̔ρμᾰ́τοιν toîn harmátoin |
τῶν ᾰ̔ρμᾰ́των tôn harmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ᾰ̔́ρμᾰτῐ tôi hármati |
τοῖν ᾰ̔ρμᾰ́τοιν toîn harmátoin |
τοῖς ᾰ̔́ρμᾰσῐ / ᾰ̔́ρμᾰσῐν toîs hármasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ᾰ̔́ρμᾰ tò hárma |
τὼ ᾰ̔́ρμᾰτε tṑ hármate |
τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́ρμᾰτᾰ tà hármata | ||||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̔́ρμᾰ hárma |
ᾰ̔́ρμᾰτε hármate |
ᾰ̔́ρμᾰτᾰ hármata | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἁρμάμαξα (harmámaxa)
- ἁρματοδρομία (harmatodromía)
Descendants
- Greek: άρμα (árma)
Further reading
- “ἅρμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἅρμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἅρμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἅρμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἅρμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἅρμα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἅρμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G716 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.