ὅραμα

See also: όραμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὁράω (horáō, “to see”) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hó.raː.ma/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)o.ra.ma/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.ma/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.ma/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ra.ma/

Noun

ὅρᾱμᾰ • (hórāma) n (genitive ὁρᾱ́μᾰτος); third declension

that which is seen, a visible object, a sight
- Aristotle, On the Soul 3.3
1. a sight, spectacle
  - Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.66
2. (Koine) a sensory experience, such as a dream, not necessarily restricted to sight
  - 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 46.2
an object of speculation, a speculation
- Aristotle, Republic 1.2.12

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

Greek: όραμα (órama)
English: -orama

Further reading

“ὅραμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὅραμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ὅραμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G3705 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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