σῶμα

See also: σώμα

Ancient Greek

Uncertain. Maybe from *twṓmə, derived from *tewh₂- (“to swell”),[1] or from *styṓmə, derived from *styeH- (“to stiffen”).[2]

σῶμα • (sôma) n (genitive σώματος); third declension

body (both that of people and animals)
1. (Homeric and often in other early works) dead body
One's life in the physical world
That which is material (as opposed to spiritual)
person
An entire thing
(mathematics) three-dimensional object

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σῶμᾰ tò sôma	τὼ σώμᾰτε tṑ sṓmate	τᾰ̀ σώμᾰτᾰ tà sṓmata
Genitive	τοῦ σώμᾰτος toû sṓmatos	τοῖν σωμᾰ́τοιν toîn sōmátoin	τῶν σωμᾰ́των tôn sōmátōn
Dative	τῷ σώμᾰτῐ tôi sṓmati	τοῖν σωμᾰ́τοιν toîn sōmátoin	τοῖς σώμᾰσῐ / σώμᾰσῐν toîs sṓmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ σῶμᾰ tò sôma	τὼ σώμᾰτε tṑ sṓmate	τᾰ̀ σώμᾰτᾰ tà sṓmata
Vocative	σῶμᾰ sôma	σώμᾰτε sṓmate	σώμᾰτᾰ sṓmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Frisk, Hjalmar (1972) “σῶμα”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 842-43

“σῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σῶμα 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
σῶμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G4983 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.
- bodily idem, page 87.
- body idem, page 87.
- constitution idem, page 164.
- constitutional idem, page 165.
- corporal idem, page 174.
- corpse idem, page 174.
- flesh idem, page 327.
- frame idem, page 342.
- health idem, page 391.
- person idem, page 608.
- personal idem, page 608.
- physique idem, page 611.
- stature idem, page 813.

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