βρῶμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “I eat”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă, object noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /brɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈβro.ma/ → /ˈvro.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brɔ̂ː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbro.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβro.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvro.ma/

Noun

βρῶμᾰ • (brômă) n (genitive βρώμᾰτος); third declension

1. a shipworm (Teredo navalis) that bores into wooden piers, ships, etc.
2. that which is eaten, food, meat
3. (dentistry) cavity

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ βρῶμᾰ; τοῦ βρώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βρῶμᾰ tò brômă	τὼ βρώμᾰτε tṑ brṓmăte	τᾰ̀ βρώμᾰτᾰ tằ brṓmătă
Genitive	τοῦ βρώμᾰτος toû brṓmătos	τοῖν βρωμᾰ́τοιν toîn brōmắtoin	τῶν βρωμᾰ́των tôn brōmắtōn
Dative	τῷ βρώμᾰτῐ tôi brṓmătĭ	τοῖν βρωμᾰ́τοιν toîn brōmắtoin	τοῖς βρώμᾰσῐ / βρώμᾰσῐν toîs brṓmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ βρῶμᾰ tò brômă	τὼ βρώμᾰτε tṑ brṓmăte	τᾰ̀ βρώμᾰτᾰ tằ brṓmătă
Vocative	βρῶμᾰ brômă	βρώμᾰτε brṓmăte	βρώμᾰτᾰ brṓmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Italian: bruma
• → Sicilian: bromu
  • → Maltese: bram
• → Spanish: broma

Further reading

• “βρῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βρῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βρῶμα 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
• βρῶμα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1033 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • food idem, page 333.