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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐμβάλλω (embállō, “to put in, to lay on”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ém.blɛː.ma/ → /ˈem.bli.ma/ → /ˈem.bli.ma/
Noun
ἔμβλημᾰ • (émblēma) n (genitive ἐμβλήμᾰτος); third declension
- insertion
- chased or imbossed ornament
- graft
- tessellated work, a mosaic
- inner sole put into the shoe in winter
- sluice gate
- payment; fine
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἔμβλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἔμβλημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἔμβλημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἔμβλημα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011