πέλμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *pélmn̥, from *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”) and cognate with Proto-Germanic *felmô (“covering, skin”) (whence English film). Compare also Latin pellis (“skin”), Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, hide”) and Proto-Slavic *plěna (“membrane”) from the same root.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pél.ma/ → /ˈpel.ma/ → /ˈpel.ma/

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

Noun

πέλμᾰ • (pélma) n (genitive πέλμᾰτος); third declension

1. sole of the foot
   1. sole of the shoe
2. (botany) stalk (of apples and pears)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ πέλμᾰ; τοῦ πέλμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ πέλμᾰ tò pélma	τὼ πέλμᾰτε tṑ pélmate	τᾰ̀ πέλμᾰτᾰ tà pélmata
Genitive	τοῦ πέλμᾰτος toû pélmatos	τοῖν πελμᾰ́τοιν toîn pelmátoin	τῶν πελμᾰ́των tôn pelmátōn
Dative	τῷ πέλμᾰτῐ tôi pélmati	τοῖν πελμᾰ́τοιν toîn pelmátoin	τοῖς πέλμᾰσῐ / πέλμᾰσῐν toîs pélmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ πέλμᾰ tò pélma	τὼ πέλμᾰτε tṑ pélmate	τᾰ̀ πέλμᾰτᾰ tà pélmata
Vocative	πέλμᾰ pélma	πέλμᾰτε pélmate	πέλμᾰτᾰ pélmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βᾰθῠ́πελμος (bathúpelmos)
• δῐ́πελμος (dípelmos)
• μονόπελμος (monópelmos)
• πελμᾰτῐ́ζω (pelmatízō)
• πελμᾰτόομαι (pelmatóomai)

 

Descendants

• Greek: πέλμα (pélma)

Further reading

• “πέλμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πέλμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πέλμα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πέλμᾰ (pélma).

Noun

πέλμα • (pélma) n (plural πέλματα)

1. sole (of foot)
2. sole (of shoe)

Declension

Declension of πέλμα

	singular	plural
nominative	πέλμα •	πέλματα •
genitive	πέλματος •	πελμάτων •
accusative	πέλμα •	πέλματα •
vocative	πέλμα •	πέλματα •

Synonyms

• πατούσα f (patoúsa)