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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καταλύω (katalúō, “stay over night”) + -μα (-ma, “a suffix forming neuter nouns denoting the effect or result of an action a particular instance of an action, or the object of an action”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.tá.ly.ma/ → /kaˈta.ly.ma/ → /kaˈta.li.ma/
Noun
κᾰτάλῠμᾰ • (katáluma) n (genitive κᾰτᾰλύμᾰτος); third declension
- lodging, billet, provision of quarters
- (Koine) guestchamber
- (Byzantine) ruin
Declension
Further reading
- κατάλυμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κατάλυμα - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “κατάλυμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κατάλυμα 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
- G2646 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible