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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῑ̔λᾰ́σκομαι (hīláskomai, “appease”) + -μᾰ (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hǐː.laz.ma/ → /ˈi.laz.ma/ → /ˈi.laz.ma/
Noun
ῑ̔́λᾰσμᾰ • (hī́lasma) n (genitive ῑ̔λᾰ́σμᾰτος); third declension
- propitiation
Inflection
References
- “ἵλασμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἵλασμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἵλασμα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “ἵλασμα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011