Ancient Greek

Noun

κῦμα • ‎(kûma) n ‎(genitive κύματος); third declension

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

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: cymatics, cymatograph, cymatolite, cymophane, cymotrichous
• Latin: cȳma

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• 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.