διάδημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind round”) +‎ -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /di.á.dɛː.ma/ → /ðiˈa.ði.ma/ → /ðiˈa.ði.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /di.á.dɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /diˈa.de̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈa.ði.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðiˈa.ði.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðiˈa.ði.ma/

Noun

δῐᾰ́δημᾰ • (diádēma) n (genitive δῐᾰδήμᾰτος); third declension

1. headband
2. diadem (especially that of the Persian kings), crown

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ δῐᾰ́δημᾰ; τοῦ δῐᾰδήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ δῐᾰ́δημᾰ tò diádēma	τὼ δῐᾰδήμᾰτε tṑ diadḗmate	τᾰ̀ δῐᾰδήμᾰτᾰ tà diadḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ δῐᾰδήμᾰτος toû diadḗmatos	τοῖν δῐᾰδημᾰ́τοιν toîn diadēmátoin	τῶν δῐᾰδημᾰ́των tôn diadēmátōn
Dative	τῷ δῐᾰδήμᾰτῐ tôi diadḗmati	τοῖν δῐᾰδημᾰ́τοιν toîn diadēmátoin	τοῖς δῐᾰδήμᾰσῐ / δῐᾰδήμᾰσῐν toîs diadḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ δῐᾰ́δημᾰ tò diádēma	τὼ δῐᾰδήμᾰτε tṑ diadḗmate	τᾰ̀ δῐᾰδήμᾰτᾰ tà diadḗmata
Vocative	δῐᾰ́δημᾰ diádēma	δῐᾰδήμᾰτε diadḗmate	δῐᾰδήμᾰτᾰ diadḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• στέφανος (stéphanos)

Descendants

• Parthian: 𐭃𐭉𐭃𐭉𐭌 (dīδēm, dīdēm‎)
  • Middle Persian: 𐭣𐭩𐭣𐭩𐭬𐭩 (dīyēm, dīdēm)
    • Persian: دیهیم
• Latin: diadēma
  • Old French: diademe
    • French: diadème
      • Polish: diadem
    • Middle English: diademe
      • English: diadem
  • Italian: diadema
  • Russian: диаде́ма (diadɛ́ma)
  • Spanish: diadema

Further reading

• “διάδημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “διάδημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• διάδημα 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
• διάδημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1238 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.
  • crown idem, page 186.
  • diadem idem, page 221.