κῦμα

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

κῦμ’ (kûm’) — apocopic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kūmə, equivalent to κῠ́ω (kúō, “conceive”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kŷː.ma/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.ma/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.ma/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.ma/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ma/

Noun

κῦμᾰ • (kûma) n (genitive κῡ́μᾰτος); third declension

swell, wave, billow
1. (figuratively) a wave or flood of people
2. (in Tragedy) wave of adversity
3. a waved or ogee moulding, cyma
fetus, embryo
1. sprout of a plant

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ κῦμᾰ; τοῦ κῡ́μᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῦμᾰ tò kûma	τὼ κῡ́μᾰτε tṑ kū́mate	τᾰ̀ κῡ́μᾰτᾰ tà kū́mata
Genitive	τοῦ κῡ́μᾰτος toû kū́matos	τοῖν κῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn kūmátoin	τῶν κῡμᾰ́των tôn kūmátōn
Dative	τῷ κῡ́μᾰτῐ tôi kū́mati	τοῖν κῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn kūmátoin	τοῖς κῡ́μᾰσῐ / κῡ́μᾰσῐν toîs kū́masi(n)
Accusative	τὸ κῦμᾰ tò kûma	τὼ κῡ́μᾰτε tṑ kū́mate	τᾰ̀ κῡ́μᾰτᾰ tà kū́mata
Vocative	κῦμᾰ kûma	κῡ́μᾰτε kū́mate	κῡ́μᾰτᾰ kū́mata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

κυμαίνω (kumaínō)
κύμανσις (kúmansis)
κυματηδόν (kumatēdón)
κυματίας (kumatías)
κυματίζομαι (kumatízomai)
κυμάτιον (kumátion)
κυματοαγής (kumatoagḗs)
κυματοβόλος (kumatobólos)
κυματοδρόμος (kumatodrómos)
κυματοειδής (kumatoeidḗs)
κυματόεις (kumatóeis)
κυματολήγη (kumatolḗgē)
κυματοπλήξ (kumatoplḗx)
κυματότροφος (kumatótrophos)
κυματοφθόρος (kumatophthóros)
κυματόω (kumatóō)
κυματωγή (kumatōgḗ)
κυματώδης (kumatṓdēs)
κυμάτωσις (kumátōsis)
κυμοδέγμων (kumodégmōn)
κυμοδόκη (kumodókē)
κυμοθαλής (kumothalḗs)
κυμοθόη (kumothóē)
κυμόκτυπος (kumóktupos)
κυμοπόλεια (kumopóleia)
κυμορρώξ (kumorrhṓx)
κυμοτόμος (kumotómos)
Κυμώ (Kumṓ)

Descendants

Greek: κύμα (kýma)
Mariupol Greek: ки́ма (kíma)
→ Latin: cȳma (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

“κῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“κῦμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
κῦμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
κῦμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“κῦμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2949 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.
- billow idem, page 79.
- embryo idem, page 268.
- flood idem, page 329.
- foetus idem, page 331.
- surge idem, page 843.
- tide idem, page 873.
- unborn idem, page 908.
- wash idem, page 964.
- wave idem, page 967.
- young idem, page 997.
κῦμα - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

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