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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō, “I miss, fail, am deprived of (a thing), fail to do, sin”) + -μα (-ma, “instance of”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha.már.tɛː.ma/ → /aˈmar.ti.ma/ → /aˈmar.ti.ma/
Noun
ᾰ̔μᾰ́ρτημᾰ • (hamártēma) n (genitive ᾰ̔μᾰρτήμᾰτος); third declension
- a failure, fault, sin
- a bodily defect, malady
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἁμάρτημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἁμάρτημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἁμάρτημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἁμάρτημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G265 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.
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