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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ὑποδέω (hupodéō, “to bind underneath”) + -μα (-ma) (these were fastened to the feet with straps).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hy.pó.dɛː.ma/ → /yˈpo.ði.ma/ → /iˈpo.ði.ma/
Noun
ῠ̔πόδημᾰ • (hupódēma) n (genitive ῠ̔ποδήμᾰτος); third declension
- A sandal or shoe, any kind of footwear
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ὑπόδημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑπόδημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὑπόδημα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὑπόδημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G5266 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.