φώνημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

φωνέω (phōnéō, “I produce a sound or tone”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma)

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ː.nɛː.ma/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰo.ne.ma/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸo.ni.ma/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ni.ma/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ni.ma/

Noun

φώνημᾰ • (phṓnēma) n (genitive φωνήματος); third declension

sound made, utterance
1. of a singer’s voice
2. of a dog’s bark and ass’s bray
thing spoken, speech, language

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ φώνημᾰ; τοῦ φωνήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φώνημᾰ tò phṓnēma	τὼ φωνήμᾰτε tṑ phōnḗmate	τᾰ̀ φωνήμᾰτᾰ tà phōnḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ φωνήμᾰτος toû phōnḗmatos	τοῖν φωνημᾰ́τοιν toîn phōnēmátoin	τῶν φωνημᾰ́των tôn phōnēmátōn
Dative	τῷ φωνήμᾰτῐ tôi phōnḗmati	τοῖν φωνημᾰ́τοιν toîn phōnēmátoin	τοῖς φωνήμᾰσῐ / φωνήμᾰσῐν toîs phōnḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ φώνημᾰ tò phṓnēma	τὼ φωνήμᾰτε tṑ phōnḗmate	τᾰ̀ φωνήμᾰτᾰ tà phōnḗmata
Vocative	φώνημᾰ phṓnēma	φωνήμᾰτε phōnḗmate	φωνήμᾰτᾰ phōnḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: φώνημα (fónima)

References

φώνημα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
φώνημα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
φώνημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- speech idem, page 800.
- utterance idem, page 941.
- voice idem, page 955.

Greek

Etymology

A reborrowing from French phonème (“phoneme”), from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound made”, “utterance”; “thing spoken”, “speech”, “language”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfonima/
Hyphenation: φώ‧νη‧μα

Noun

φώνημα • (fónima) n (plural φωνήματα)

(linguistics) phoneme

Declension

declension of φώνημα

	singular	plural
nominative	φώνημα •	φωνήματα •
genitive	φωνήματος •	φωνημάτων •
accusative	φώνημα •	φωνήματα •
vocative	φώνημα •	φωνήματα •

Related terms

see: φωνή n (foní, “sound, voice”)

References

Babiniotis, Georgios (2008) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας [Modern Greek Dictionary] (in Greek), 3rd edition, Athens: Lexicology Centre

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[1] Babiniotis, Georgios (2008) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας [Modern Greek Dictionary] (in Greek), 3rd edition, Athens: Lexicology Centre