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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μιαίνω (miaínō, “to stain”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mí.az.ma/ → /ˈmi.az.ma/ → /ˈmi.az.ma/
Noun
μῐ́ασμᾰ • (míasma) n (genitive μῐάσμᾰτος); third declension
- pollution, defilement
- c. 2nd century bc, The Book of Judith, 9:4
οἳ καὶ ἐζήλωσαν τὸν ζῆλόν σου καὶ ἐβδελύξαντο μίασμα αἵματος αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπεκαλέσαντό σε εἰς βοηθόν.- hoì kaì ezḗlōsan tòn zêlón sou kaì ebdelúxanto míasma haímatos autôn kaì epekalésantó se eis boēthón.
- And they were moved with thy zeal, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon thee for aid.
- shameful action, crime
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “μίασμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μίασμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μίασμα 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
- G3392 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.
- abomination idem, page 2.
- blood-guiltiness idem, page 84.
- contagion idem, page 166.
- contamination idem, page 166.
- curse idem, page 191.
- desecration idem, page 215.
- guilt idem, page 378.
- infection idem, page 437.
- miasma idem, page 527.
- plague-spot idem, page 616.
- pollution idem, page 625.
- stain idem, page 809.
- taint idem, page 852.
- uncleanness idem, page 909.