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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “I eat”) + -μᾰ (-ma, object noun suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈβro.ma/ → /ˈvro.ma/
Noun
βρῶμᾰ • (brôma) n (genitive βρώμᾰτος); third declension
- a shipworm (Teredo navalis) that bores into wooden piers, ships, etc.
- that which is eaten, food, meat
- (dentistry) cavity
Inflection
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References
Further reading
- “βρῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βρῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βρῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- βρῶμα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1033 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.