Ancient Greek

Noun

πνεῦμα • ‎(pneûma) n ‎(genitive πνεύματος); third declension

1. air
2. wind
3. breath
4. (phonology) breathing
5. life
6. spirit, soul
7. spiritual being: spirit, angel
8. inspiration (often divine inspiration), genius

Inflection

Synonyms

• ψυχή ‎(psukhḗ)

Derived terms

• πνεῦμᾰτικός ‎(pneûmatikós)
• πνευμάτιον ‎(pneumátion)
• πνευμάτιος ‎(pneumátios)
• πνευματόω ‎(pneumatóō)
• πνευματώδης ‎(pneumatṓdēs)

Descendants

• Greek: πνεύμα ‎(pnévma)
• Latin: pneuma

References

• πνεῦμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πνεῦμα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πνεῦμα» 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
• “G4151”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «πνεῦμα» 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • air idem, page 21.
  • blast idem, page 82.
  • breath idem, page 96.
  • breeze idem, page 97.
  • current idem, page 190.
  • draught idem, page 250.
  • exhalation idem, page 291.
  • gust idem, page 379.
  • wind idem, page 980.