Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /míazma/

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

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

Noun

μίασμα • ‎(míasma) n ‎(genitive μιάσματος); third declension

1. pollution, defilement
   • c. 2nd century bc, The Book of Judith, 9:4

     οἳ καὶ ἐζήλωσαν τὸν ζῆλόν σου καὶ ἐβδελύξαντο μίασμα αἵματος αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπεκαλέσαντό σε εἰς βοηθόν.

     And they were moved with thy zeal, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called upon thee for aid.

2. shameful action, crime

Inflection

Descendants

• English: miasma (borrowed)
• French: miasme (borrowed)
• Italian: miasma (borrowed)
• Portuguese: miasma (borrowed)
• Russian: миазмы ‎(miázmy) (borrowed)
• Spanish: miasma (borrowed)

References

• μίασμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μίασμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μίασμα» 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
• “G3392”, 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.
  • abomination idem, page 2.
  • blood-guiltiness idem, page 84.
  • contagion idem, page 166.
  • contamination idem, page 166.
  • curse idem, page 191.
  • desecration idem, page 215.
  • guilt idem, page 378.
  • infection idem, page 437.
  • miasma idem, page 527.
  • plague-spot idem, page 616.
  • pollution idem, page 625.
  • stain idem, page 809.
  • taint idem, page 852.
  • uncleanness idem, page 909.