Ancient Greek

Noun

χάσμα • ‎(khásma) n ‎(genitive χάσματος); third declension

1. hollow, chasm, gulf
2. open mouth
3. space, expanse

Inflection

References

• χάσμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χάσμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χάσμα» 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
• “G5490”, 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.
  • abyss idem, page 5.
  • aperture idem, page 33.
  • cavity idem, page 120.
  • chasm idem, page 127.
  • cleft idem, page 137.
  • crack idem, page 181.
  • crevice idem, page 184.
  • fissure idem, page 323.
  • gulf idem, page 379.
  • hole idem, page 403.
  • opening idem, page 575.
  • rent idem, page 695.
  • rift idem, page 714.
  • split idem, page 803.
  • yawning idem, page 995.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χάσμα ‎(khásma)

Noun

χάσμα • ‎(chásma) n

1. chasm
2. gap
3. (figuratively) chasm, rift

Declension

Synonyms

• φαράγγι n ‎(farángi)
• χαράδρα f ‎(charádra)

Coordinate terms

• βάραθρο n ‎(várathro, “precipice”)
• ρήγμα n ‎(rígma, “rift”)