Ancient Greek

Noun

φώνημᾰ • ‎(phṓnēma) n ‎(genitive φωνήματος); third declension

1. sound made, utterance
   1. of a singer’s voice
   2. of a dog’s bark and ass’s bray
2. thing spoken, speech, language

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: φώνημα ‎(fónima)

References

• φώνημα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φώνημα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φώνημα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • speech idem, page 800.
  • utterance idem, page 941.
  • voice idem, page 955.

Greek

Etymology

A reborrowing from French phonème ‎(“phoneme”), from Ancient Greek φώνημα ‎(phṓnēma, “sound made”, “utterance”; “thing spoken”, “speech”, “language”).^[1]

Noun

φώνημα • ‎(fónima) n ‎(plural φωνήματα)

1. (linguistics) phoneme

Declension

Related terms

• see: φωνή n ‎(foní, “sound, voice”)

References

1. ↑ Babiniotis, Georgios (2008) Λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας [Modern Greek Dictionary], 3rd edition, Athens: Lexicology Centre