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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Connected with λαιμός (laimós, “throat”), assuming suffixes -τ-μα. If this connection is correct at all, it rather points to Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lâi̯t.ma/ → /ˈlɛt.ma/ → /ˈlet.ma/
Noun
λαῖτμᾰ • (laîtma) n (genitive λαίτμᾰτος); third declension
- (poetic) depth or gulf of the sea
Inflection
Further reading
- “λαῖτμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λαῖτμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λαῖτμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λαῖτμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN