Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /θéma/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θéma/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θéma/

Noun

θέμα • ‎(théma) n ‎(genitive θέματος); third declension

1. That which is laid down, placed, proposed
2. pile
3. pledge of money, deposit
4. horoscope
5. prize
6. main topic, theme, proposition
7. (grammar) primary word, root

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: thema
• Russian: тема ‎(téma)

References

• θέμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «θέμα» 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
• «θέμα» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Greek

Noun

θέμα • ‎(théma) n ‎(plural θέματα)

1. subject, main topic (of conversation, etc)
2. affair
3. (music) theme
4. theme, the regional unit of government of the Byzantine empire.

Declension