Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
πτῶμα. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
πτῶμα, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
πτῶμα in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
πτῶμα you have here. The definition of the word
πτῶμα will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
πτῶμα, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”) + -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ptɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈpto.ma/ → /ˈpto.ma/
Noun
πτῶμα • (ptôma) n (genitive πτώματος); third declension
- fall
- misfortune, calamity, defeat
- one who has fallen: corpse, dead body
- of buildings: ruin
Inflection
Further reading
- “πτῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πτῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- πτῶμα 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
- G4430 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.