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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/
Noun
δῐᾰ́δημᾰ • (diádēma) n (genitive δῐᾰδήμᾰτος); third declension
- headband
- diadem (especially that of the Persian kings), crown
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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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.