μνῆμα
Ancient Greek
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom μνάομαι (mnáomai) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mnɛ̂ː.ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmne̝.ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmni.ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmni.ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmni.ma/
Noun
editμνῆμα • (mnêma) n (genitive μνήμᾰτος); third declension
- memorial, remembrance, record of a person or thing
- mound or building in honour of the dead
- memorial dedicated to a god
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μνῆμᾰ tò mnêma |
τὼ μνήμᾰτε tṑ mnḗmate |
τᾰ̀ μνήμᾰτᾰ tà mnḗmata | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μνήμᾰτος toû mnḗmatos |
τοῖν μνημᾰ́τοιν toîn mnēmátoin |
τῶν μνημᾰ́των tôn mnēmátōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μνήμᾰτῐ tôi mnḗmati |
τοῖν μνημᾰ́τοιν toîn mnēmátoin |
τοῖς μνήμᾰσῐ / μνήμᾰσῐν toîs mnḗmasi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μνῆμᾰ tò mnêma |
τὼ μνήμᾰτε tṑ mnḗmate |
τᾰ̀ μνήμᾰτᾰ tà mnḗmata | ||||||||||
Vocative | μνῆμᾰ mnêma |
μνήμᾰτε mnḗmate |
μνήμᾰτᾰ mnḗmata | ||||||||||
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Descendants
edit- Greek: μνήμα (mníma)
Further reading
edit- “μνῆμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μνῆμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (think)
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μα
- 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