ἅλμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ᾰ̔́λλομαι (hắllomai, “to jump, to leap”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ᾰ̔́λμᾰ • (hắlmă) n (genitive ᾰ̔́λμᾰτος); third declension

  1. spring, leap, jump
  2. jumping, as an athletic contest
  3. (medicine) pulsation, palpitation (of the embryo or of the heart)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ᾰ̔́λμᾰ; τοῦ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ ᾰ̔́λμᾰ
tò hắlmă 		τὼ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτε
tṑ hắlmăte 		τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτᾰ
tằ hắlmătă
Genitive τοῦ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτος
toû hắlmătos 		τοῖν ᾰ̔λμᾰ́τοιν
toîn hălmắtoin 		τῶν ᾰ̔λμᾰ́των
tôn hălmắtōn
Dative τῷ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτῐ
tōî hắlmătĭ 		τοῖν ᾰ̔λμᾰ́τοιν
toîn hălmắtoin 		τοῖς ᾰ̔́λμᾰσῐ / ᾰ̔́λμᾰσῐν
toîs hắlmăsĭ(n)
Accusative τὸ ᾰ̔́λμᾰ
tò hắlmă 		τὼ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτε
tṑ hắlmăte 		τᾰ̀ ᾰ̔́λμᾰτᾰ
tằ hắlmătă
Vocative ᾰ̔́λμᾰ
hắlmă 		ᾰ̔́λμᾰτε
hắlmăte 		ᾰ̔́λμᾰτᾰ
hắlmătă
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Greek: άλμα (álma)

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.