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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀδικέω (adikéō, “to behave unjustly, to commit a crime”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dí.kɛː.ma/ → /aˈði.ci.ma/ → /aˈði.ci.ma/
Noun
ᾰ̓δῐ́κημᾰ • (ădĭ́kēmă) n (genitive ᾰ̓δῐκήμᾰτος); third declension
- misdeed, offence, wrongdoing
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀδίκημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀδίκημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀδίκημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἀδίκημα 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.
- aggression idem, page 18.
- breach idem, page 94.
- delinquency idem, page 208.
- evil idem, page 286.
- fault idem, page 310.
- grievance idem, page 373.
- guilt idem, page 378.
- iniquity idem, page 441.
- injustice idem, page 441.
- miscarriage idem, page 533.
- misdeed idem, page 533.
- offence idem, page 571.
- sin idem, page 777.
- transgression idem, page 888.
- trespass idem, page 893.
- wrong idem, page 994.
- wrong-doing idem, page 994.