ἔμβλημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐμβάλλω (embállō, “to put in, to lay on”) and the suffix -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ém.blɛː.ma/ → /ˈem.bli.ma/ → /ˈem.bli.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ém.blɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈem.ble̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.bli.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈem.bli.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈem.bli.ma/

Noun

ἔμβλημᾰ • (émblēma) n (genitive ἐμβλήμᾰτος); third declension

1. insertion
2. chased or imbossed ornament
3. graft
4. tessellated work, a mosaic
5. inner sole put into the shoe in winter
6. sluice gate
7. payment; fine

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔμβλημᾰ tò émblēma	τὼ ἐμβλήμᾰτε tṑ emblḗmate	τᾰ̀ ἐμβλήμᾰτᾰ tà emblḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ ἐμβλήμᾰτος toû emblḗmatos	τοῖν ἐμβλημᾰ́τοιν toîn emblēmátoin	τῶν ἐμβλημᾰ́των tôn emblēmátōn
Dative	τῷ ἐμβλήμᾰτῐ tôi emblḗmati	τοῖν ἐμβλημᾰ́τοιν toîn emblēmátoin	τοῖς ἐμβλήμᾰσῐ / ἐμβλήμᾰσῐν toîs emblḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ἔμβλημᾰ tò émblēma	τὼ ἐμβλήμᾰτε tṑ emblḗmate	τᾰ̀ ἐμβλήμᾰτᾰ tà emblḗmata
Vocative	ἔμβλημᾰ émblēma	ἐμβλήμᾰτε emblḗmate	ἐμβλήμᾰτᾰ emblḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ ἔμβλημᾰ; τοῦ ἐμβλήμᾰτος (Attic)

Descendants

• → Latin: emblēma
  • → English: emblem
  • → French: emblème
  • → Italian: emblema
  • → Russian: эмбле́ма (embléma)

Further reading

• “ἔμβλημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἔμβλημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔμβλημα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἔμβλημα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011