ζῶμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi, “to gird”) +‎ -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ζῶμᾰ • (zôma) n (genitive ζώμᾰτος); third declension

  1. loincloth, drawers, worn next the body in a boxing contest
  2. (surgery) band used in surgery
  3. woman's girdle

Inflection
Third declension of τὸ ζῶμᾰ; τοῦ ζώμᾰτος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ ζῶμᾰ
tò zôma		 τὼ ζώμᾰτε
tṑ zṓmate		 τᾰ̀ ζώμᾰτᾰ
tà zṓmata
Genitive τοῦ ζώμᾰτος
toû zṓmatos		 τοῖν ζωμᾰ́τοιν
toîn zōmátoin		 τῶν ζωμᾰ́των
tôn zōmátōn
Dative τῷ ζώμᾰτῐ
tôi zṓmati		 τοῖν ζωμᾰ́τοιν
toîn zōmátoin		 τοῖς ζώμᾰσῐ / ζώμᾰσῐν
toîs zṓmasi(n)
Accusative τὸ ζῶμᾰ
tò zôma		 τὼ ζώμᾰτε
tṑ zṓmate		 τᾰ̀ ζώμᾰτᾰ
tà zṓmata
Vocative ζῶμᾰ
zôma		 ζώμᾰτε
zṓmate		 ζώμᾰτᾰ
zṓmata
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Further reading
  • “ζῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ζῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ζῶμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ζῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ζῶμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
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