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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”) + -μᾰ (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lŷː.ma/ → /ˈly.ma/ → /ˈli.ma/
Noun
λῦμᾰ • (lûma) n (genitive λῡ́μᾰτος); third declension
- water used in washing, bathwater
- dirt removed by washing, offscouring
- moral filth, defilement
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “λῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- λῦμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bane idem, page 61.
- contamination idem, page 166.
- defilement idem, page 205.
- desecration idem, page 215.
- infection idem, page 437.
- pest idem, page 609.
- plague idem, page 616.
- plague-spot idem, page 616.
- pollution idem, page 625.
- scourge idem, page 741.
- stain idem, page 809.
- taint idem, page 852.