κῦμα

See also: κύμα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κῦμ’ (kûm’) — apocopic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kūmə, equivalent to κῠ́ω (kŭ́ō, “conceive”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kŷː.ma/ → /ˈcy.ma/ → /ˈci.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kŷː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈky.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcy.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.ma/

Noun

κῦμᾰ • (kûmă) n (genitive κῡ́μᾰτος); third declension

1. swell, wave, billow
   1. (figuratively) a wave or flood of people
   2. (in Tragedy) wave of adversity
   3. a waved or ogee moulding, cyma
2. fetus, embryo
   1. sprout of a plant

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῦμᾰ tò kûmă	τὼ κῡ́μᾰτε tṑ kū́măte	τᾰ̀ κῡ́μᾰτᾰ tằ kū́mătă
Genitive	τοῦ κῡ́μᾰτος toû kū́mătos	τοῖν κῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn kūmắtoin	τῶν κῡμᾰ́των tôn kūmắtōn
Dative	τῷ κῡ́μᾰτῐ tôi kū́mătĭ	τοῖν κῡμᾰ́τοιν toîn kūmắtoin	τοῖς κῡ́μᾰσῐ / κῡ́μᾰσῐν toîs kū́măsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ κῦμᾰ tò kûmă	τὼ κῡ́μᾰτε tṑ kū́măte	τᾰ̀ κῡ́μᾰτᾰ tằ kū́mătă
Vocative	κῦμᾰ kûmă	κῡ́μᾰτε kū́măte	κῡ́μᾰτᾰ kū́mătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ κῦμᾰ; τοῦ κῡ́μᾰτος (Attic)

Derived terms

• κυμαίνω (kumaínō)
• κύμανσις (kúmansis)
• κυματηδόν (kumatēdón)
• κυματίας (kumatías)
• κυματίζομαι (kumatízomai)
• κυμάτιον (kumátion)
• κυματοαγής (kumatoagḗs)
• κυματοβόλος (kumatobólos)
• κυματοδρόμος (kumatodrómos)
• κυματοειδής (kumatoeidḗs)
• κυματόεις (kumatóeis)
• κυματολήγη (kumatolḗgē)
• κυματοπλήξ (kumatoplḗx)
• κυματότροφος (kumatótrophos)
• κυματοφθόρος (kumatophthóros)
• κυματόω (kumatóō)
• κυματωγή (kumatōgḗ)
• κυματώδης (kumatṓdēs)
• κυμάτωσις (kumátōsis)
• κυμοδέγμων (kumodégmōn)
• κυμοδόκη (kumodókē)
• κυμοθαλής (kumothalḗs)
• κυμοθόη (kumothóē)
• κυμόκτυπος (kumóktupos)
• κυμοπόλεια (kumopóleia)
• κυμορρώξ (kumorrhṓx)
• κυμοτόμος (kumotómos)
• Κυμώ (Kumṓ)

Descendants

• Greek: κύμα (kýma)
• Mariupol Greek: ки́ма (kíma)
• → Latin: cȳma (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κῦμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κῦμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κῦμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κῦμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κῦμα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2949 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.
  • billow idem, page 79.
  • embryo idem, page 268.
  • flood idem, page 329.
  • foetus idem, page 331.
  • surge idem, page 843.
  • tide idem, page 873.
  • unborn idem, page 908.
  • wash idem, page 964.
  • wave idem, page 967.
  • young idem, page 997.
• κῦμα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011