lympha

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Latin

Alternative forms

limpha

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (númphē, “bride, young girl; spring water”). Doublet of nympha.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlym.pʰa/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlim.fa/,

Noun

lympha f (genitive lymphae); first declension

(poetic) water, especially clear river or spring water
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.635:
  ; dic corpus properet fluviali spargere lympha, et pecudes secum et monstrata piacula ducat:
(medicine) water in dropsical people

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lympha	lymphae
Genitive	lymphae	lymphārum
Dative	lymphae	lymphīs
Accusative	lympham	lymphās
Ablative	lymphā	lymphīs
Vocative	lympha	lymphae

Derived terms

lymphāceus (adjective)
lymphō (verb)

Related terms

Descendants

Descendants of lympha in other languages

→ Catalan: limfa
→ Chinese: 淋巴 (línbā)
→ French: lymphe
- → English: lymph, lymphe
→ Galician: linfa
→ Italian: linfa
→ Portuguese: linfa
→ Romanian: limfă
→ Spanish: linfa

References

“lympha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“lympha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
lympha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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