-μα
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *-mə, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥, with the oblique stem -ματ- (-mat-) from Proto-Hellenic *-mət-, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥-to- (seen also in Latin -mentum).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ma/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ma/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ma/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ma/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ma/
Suffix
[edit]-μᾰ • (-ma) n (genitive -μᾰτος); third declension
- Added to verbal stems to form neuter nouns denoting the effect or result of an action, a particular instance of an action, or the object of an action
- ἀθλέω (athléō, “compete”) → ἄθλημα (áthlēma, “contest”)
- ἀθύρω (athúrō, “play”) → ἄθυρμα (áthurma, “toy”)
- βδελύττομαι (bdelúttomai, “to feel nausea, to be sick”) → βδέλυγμα (bdélugma, “abomination”)
- γράφω (gráphō, “write”) → γράμμα (grámma, “that which is written, letter”)
- δέρω (dérō, “flay, skin”) → δέρμα (dérma, “skin”)
- ἐκπῑ́νω (ekpī́nō, “drink out”) → ἔκπωμα (ékpōma, “drinking-cup”)
- θεωρέω (theōréō, “observe”) → θεώρημα (theṓrēma, “observation, theorem”)
- μανθάνω (manthánō, “learn”) → μάθημα (máthēma, “lesson”)
- νοέω (noéō, “think”) → νόημα (nóēma, “thought”)
- ποιέω (poiéō, “make”) → ποίημα (poíēma, “poem, or in general something made”)
- σπείρω (speírō, “sow”) → σπέρμα (spérma, “that which is sown, seed”)
- σχίζω (skhízō, “divide”) → σχίσμα (skhísma, “that which is divided”)
- τέμνω (témnō, “cut”) → τμῆμα (tmêma, “section”)
Usage notes
[edit]Resulting nouns always have recessive accent.
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | -μᾰ -ma |
-μᾰτε -mate |
-μᾰτᾰ -mata | ||||||||||
Genitive | -μᾰτος -matos |
-μᾰτοιν -matoin |
-μᾰτων -matōn | ||||||||||
Dative | -μᾰτῐ -mati |
-μᾰτοιν -matoin |
-μᾰσῐ / -μᾰσῐν -masi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | -μᾰ -ma |
-μᾰτε -mate |
-μᾰτᾰ -mata | ||||||||||
Vocative | -μᾰ -ma |
-μᾰτε -mate |
-μᾰτᾰ -mata | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920) “Part III: Formation of Words”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 861
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from the Ancient Greek -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-μα • (-ma) n
- added to a verb form to create gerund and action nouns:
- καπνίζω (kapnízo, “to smoke”) + -μα (-ma) → κάπνισμα (kápnisma, “smoking”)
- ζεσταίνω (zestaíno, “to heat up”) + -μα (-ma) → ζέσταμα (zéstama, “warming up”)
- τελειώνω (teleióno, “to end”) + -μα (-ma) → τελείωμα (teleíoma, “ending”)
- ανοίγω (anoígo, “to open”) + -μα (-ma) → άνοιγμα (ánoigma, “opening”)
Declension
[edit]Declension of -μα
Synonyms
[edit]- -ιμο n (-imo)
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 1-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek suffixes
- Ancient Greek unaccented terms
- Ancient Greek noun-forming suffixes
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension
- Ancient Greek neuter suffixes
- Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Greek lemmas
- Greek suffixes
- Greek neuter suffixes
- Greek nouns declining like 'ιδίωμα'