ἔμβαμμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐμβάπτω (embáptō, “I dip in”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ém.bam.ma/ → /ˈem.bam.ma/ → /ˈem.ba.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ém.bam.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈem.bam.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.bam.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.bam.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈem.ba.ma/

Noun

ἔμβᾰμμᾰ • (émbamma) n (genitive ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτος); third declension

1. A sauce, a soup

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ἔμβᾰμμᾰ; τοῦ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔμβᾰμμᾰ tò émbamma	τὼ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτε tṑ embámmate	τᾰ̀ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ tà embámmata
Genitive	τοῦ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτος toû embámmatos	τοῖν ἐμβᾰμμᾰ́τοιν toîn embammátoin	τῶν ἐμβᾰμμᾰ́των tôn embammátōn
Dative	τῷ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτῐ tôi embámmati	τοῖν ἐμβᾰμμᾰ́τοιν toîn embammátoin	τοῖς ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰσῐ / ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰσῐν toîs embámmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ἔμβᾰμμᾰ tò émbamma	τὼ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτε tṑ embámmate	τᾰ̀ ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ tà embámmata
Vocative	ἔμβᾰμμᾰ émbamma	ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτε embámmate	ἐμβᾰ́μμᾰτᾰ embámmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: embamma

Further reading

• “ἔμβαμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἔμβαμμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette