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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From καίω (kaíō, “burn”) + -μα (-ma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kâu̯.ma/ → /ˈkaβ.ma/ → /ˈkav.ma/
Noun
καῦμᾰ • (kaûma) n (genitive καύμᾰτος); third declension
- burning, glow, heat (especially of the sun)
- fever
- (in the plural) holes cut by cautery
- brand (mark of ownership made by burning)
- (figuratively) love
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “καῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “καῦμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- καῦμα 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
- καῦμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2738 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.
- burning idem, page 105.
- fervour idem, page 316.
- fever idem, page 317.
- fire idem, page 322.
- glare idem, page 361.
- glow idem, page 363.
- heat idem, page 392.
- scorching-heat idem, page 740.
- sultriness idem, page 837.
- warmth idem, page 964.