βべーたρろーῶμみゅーαあるふぁ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “I eat”) +‎ -μみゅーᾰ (-ma, object noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /brɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈβべーたro.ma/ → /ˈvro.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brɔ̂ː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbro.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβべーたro.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.ma/

Noun

βべーたρろーῶμみゅーᾰ • (brôma) n (genitive βρώμᾰτος); third declension

1. a shipworm (Teredo navalis) that bores into wooden piers, ships, etc.
2. that which is eaten, food, meat
3. (dentistry) cavity

Inflection

Third declension of τたうὸ βべーたρろーῶμみゅーᾰ; τたうοおみくろんῦ βρώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τたうὸ βべーたρろーῶμみゅーᾰ tò brôma	τたうὼ βρώμᾰτたうεいぷしろん tṑ brṓmate	τたうᾰ̀ βρώμᾰτたうᾰ tà brṓmata
Genitive	τたうοおみくろんῦ βρώμᾰτος toû brṓmatos	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー βべーたρろーωおめがμみゅーᾰ́τたうοおみくろんιいおたνにゅー toîn brōmátoin	τたうῶνにゅー βべーたρろーωおめがμみゅーᾰ́τたうωおめがνにゅー tôn brōmátōn
Dative	τたうῷ βρώμᾰτたうῐ tôi brṓmati	τたうοおみくろんῖνにゅー βべーたρろーωおめがμみゅーᾰ́τたうοおみくろんιいおたνにゅー toîn brōmátoin	τたうοおみくろんῖς βρώμᾰσしぐまῐ / βρώμᾰσしぐまῐνにゅー toîs brṓmasi(n)
Accusative	τたうὸ βべーたρろーῶμみゅーᾰ tò brôma	τたうὼ βρώμᾰτたうεいぷしろん tṑ brṓmate	τたうᾰ̀ βρώμᾰτたうᾰ tà brṓmata
Vocative	βべーたρろーῶμみゅーᾰ brôma	βρώμᾰτたうεいぷしろん brṓmate	βρώμᾰτたうᾰ brṓmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Italian: bruma
• → Sicilian: bromu
  • → Maltese: bram
• → Spanish: broma

Further reading

• “βべーたρろーῶμみゅーαあるふぁ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βべーたρろーῶμみゅーαあるふぁ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βべーたρろーῶμみゅーαあるふぁ 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
• βべーたρろーῶμみゅーαあるふぁ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• G1033 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • food idem, page 333.