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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Maybe from *twṓmə, derived from *tewh₂- (“to swell”), or from *styṓmə, derived from *styeH- (“to stiffen”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈso.ma/ → /ˈso.ma/
Noun
σῶμα • (sôma) n (genitive σώματος); third declension
- body (both that of people and animals)
- (Homeric and often in other early works) dead body
- One's life in the physical world
- That which is material (as opposed to spiritual)
- person
- An entire thing
- (mathematics) three-dimensional object
Declension
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Descendants
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1972) “σῶμα”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 842-43
Further reading
- “σῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σῶμα 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
- σῶμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G4983 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.
- bodily idem, page 87.
- body idem, page 87.
- constitution idem, page 164.
- constitutional idem, page 165.
- corporal idem, page 174.
- corpse idem, page 174.
- flesh idem, page 327.
- frame idem, page 342.
- health idem, page 391.
- person idem, page 608.
- personal idem, page 608.
- physique idem, page 611.
- stature idem, page 813.