κάλυμμα

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From καλύπτω (kalúptō, “to cover, to conceal”) +‎ -μα (-ma).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.lym.ma/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.lym.ma/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.lym.ma/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.lym.ma/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.li.ma/

Noun

κάλυμμᾰ • (kálummă) n (genitive καλύμμᾰτος); third declension

A head covering, a hood, a veil
A fishing net shaped like a sack
(anatomy) A skull (as the brain's covering)
A grave
(zoology) The covering of the gills of fish
The covering of honeycomb
The shell of fruits
A shutter

Declension

Third declension of τὸ κάλυμμᾰ; τοῦ καλύμμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κάλυμμᾰ tò kálummă	τὼ καλύμμᾰτε tṑ kalúmmăte	τᾰ̀ καλύμμᾰτᾰ tằ kalúmmătă
Genitive	τοῦ καλύμμᾰτος toû kalúmmătos	τοῖν καλυμμᾰ́τοιν toîn kalummắtoin	τῶν καλυμμᾰ́των tôn kalummắtōn
Dative	τῷ καλύμμᾰτῐ tôi kalúmmătĭ	τοῖν καλυμμᾰ́τοιν toîn kalummắtoin	τοῖς καλύμμᾰσῐ / καλύμμᾰσῐν toîs kalúmmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ κάλυμμᾰ tò kálummă	τὼ καλύμμᾰτε tṑ kalúmmăte	τᾰ̀ καλύμμᾰτᾰ tằ kalúmmătă
Vocative	κάλυμμᾰ kálummă	καλύμμᾰτε kalúmmăte	καλύμμᾰτᾰ kalúmmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Aramaic: גלימא (galīmā)

→ Persian: گلیم (gelim)

→ Bashkir: келәм (keləm)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: गिलीम (gilīm)
Urdu: گلیم (gilīm)
- → Kazakh: кілем (kılem)
- → Khalaj: gelîm
- → Kyrgyz: килем (kilem)
- → Uzbek: gilam
- → Ottoman Turkish: كلیم (kilim, “carpet, rug”)
  - Turkish: kilim
  - → Albanian: qilim, qylym
  - → Armenian: քիլիմ (kʻilim)
  - → Arabic: كِلِيم (kilīm)
  - → Belarusian: кілі́м (kilím)
    - → Lithuanian: kilimas
  - → Bulgarian: кили́м (kilím)
  - → Greek: κιλίμι (kilími)
  - → Macedonian: ќилим (ḱilim)
  - → Pannonian Rusyn: килим (kilim)
  - → Romanian: chilim
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ћѝлим
    Latin script: ćìlim
  - → Ukrainian: ки́лим (kýlym)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “καλύπτω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 628

Further reading

“κάλυμμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
κάλυμμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈka.li.ma/
Hyphenation: κά‧λυμ‧μα

Noun

κάλυμμα • (kálymma) n (plural καλύμματα)

cover, hood, lid, cap

Declension

Declension of **κάλυμμα**
	singular	plural
nominative	κάλυμμα (kálymma)	καλύμματα (kalýmmata)
genitive	καλύμματος (kalýmmatos)	καλυμμάτων (kalymmáton)
accusative	κάλυμμα (kálymma)	καλύμματα (kalýmmata)
vocative	κάλυμμα (kálymma)	καλύμματα (kalýmmata)

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