σῶμα
See also: σώμα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Hellenic *twṓmə, derived from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sɔ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈso.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈso.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈso.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈso.ma/
Noun
σῶμα • (sôma) n (genitive σώματος); third declension
- body (both that of people and animals)
- (Homeric and often in other early works) dead body
- One's life in the physical world
- That which is material (as opposed to spiritual)
- person
- An entire thing
- (mathematics) three-dimensional object
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σῶμᾰ tò sôma |
τὼ σώμᾰτε tṑ sṓmate |
τᾰ̀ σώμᾰτᾰ tà sṓmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σώμᾰτος toû sṓmatos |
τοῖν σωμᾰ́τοιν toîn sōmátoin |
τῶν σωμᾰ́των tôn sōmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σώμᾰτῐ tôi sṓmati |
τοῖν σωμᾰ́τοιν toîn sōmátoin |
τοῖς σώμᾰσῐ / σώμᾰσῐν toîs sṓmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σῶμᾰ tò sôma |
τὼ σώμᾰτε tṑ sṓmate |
τᾰ̀ σώμᾰτᾰ tà sṓmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῶμᾰ sôma |
σώμᾰτε sṓmate |
σώμᾰτᾰ sṓmata | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “σῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σῶμα 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
- σῶμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4983 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.
- bodily idem, page 87.
- body idem, page 87.
- constitution idem, page 164.
- constitutional idem, page 165.
- corporal idem, page 174.
- corpse idem, page 174.
- flesh idem, page 327.
- frame idem, page 342.
- health idem, page 391.
- person idem, page 608.
- personal idem, page 608.
- physique idem, page 611.
- stature idem, page 813.
- Frisk, Hjalmar (1972) “σῶμα”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 842-43
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tewh₂-
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
- Epic Greek
- grc:Mathematics