μάγμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ǵyéti

Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Ancient Greek -μα (-ma)

Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma)

From μάσσω (mássō, “I knead”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /máŋ.ma/ → /ˈmaɣ.ma/ → /ˈmaɣ.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /máŋ.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡ.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɣ.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɣ.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɣ.ma/

Noun

μάγμᾰ • (mágmă) n (genitive μάγμᾰτος); third declension

1. A kind of thick unguent

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μᾰ́γμᾰ tò mắgmă	τὼ μᾰ́γμᾰτε tṑ mắgmăte	τᾰ̀ μᾰ́γμᾰτᾰ tằ mắgmătă
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰ́γμᾰτος toû mắgmătos	τοῖν μᾰγμᾰ́τοιν toîn măgmắtoin	τῶν μᾰγμᾰ́των tôn măgmắtōn
Dative	τῷ μᾰ́γμᾰτῐ tôi mắgmătĭ	τοῖν μᾰγμᾰ́τοιν toîn măgmắtoin	τοῖς μᾰ́γμᾰσῐ / μᾰ́γμᾰσῐν toîs mắgmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ μᾰ́γμᾰ tò mắgmă	τὼ μᾰ́γμᾰτε tṑ mắgmăte	τᾰ̀ μᾰ́γμᾰτᾰ tằ mắgmătă
Vocative	μᾰ́γμᾰ mắgmă	μᾰ́γμᾰτε mắgmăte	μᾰ́γμᾰτᾰ mắgmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ μᾰ́γμᾰ; τοῦ μᾰ́γμᾰτος (Attic)

Descendants

• English: magma

Further reading

• “μάγμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μάγμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

Greek

Noun

μάγμα • (mágma) n (plural μάγματα)

1. (geology) magma

Declension

Declension of μάγμα

	singular	plural
nominative	μάγμα (mágma)	μάγματα (mágmata)
genitive	μάγματος (mágmatos)	μαγμάτων (magmáton)
accusative	μάγμα (mágma)	μάγματα (mágmata)
vocative	μάγμα (mágma)	μάγματα (mágmata)

Further reading

• μάγμα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el