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Suffix [Ancient Greek]

IPA: /ma/, /ma/, /ma/, /ma/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ma/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ma/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ma/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ma/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From Proto-Hellenic *-mə, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥, with the oblique stem -ματ- (-mat-) from Proto-Hellenic *-mət-, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥-to- (seen also in Latin -mentum). Etymology templates: {{etymon|grc|inh|ine-pro>*-mn̥>nominalizing suffix|id=nominalizing suffix}}, {{inh|grc|grk-pro||*-mə}} Proto-Hellenic *-mə, {{inh|grc|ine-pro|*-mn̥}} Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥, {{inh|grc|grk-pro||*-mət-}} Proto-Hellenic *-mət-, {{der|grc|ine-pro||*-mn̥-to-}} Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥-to- Head templates: {{grc-noun|-μᾰ|-μᾰτος|n|third}} -μᾰ • (-ma) n (genitive -μᾰτος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|-μᾰ|-μᾰτος}} Forms: -μᾰ [canonical], -ma [romanization], -μᾰτος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], -μᾰ [nominative, singular], -μᾰτε [dual, nominative], -μᾰτᾰ [nominative, plural], -μᾰτος [genitive, singular], -μᾰτοιν [dual, genitive], -μᾰτων [genitive, plural], -μᾰτῐ [dative, singular], -μᾰτοιν [dative, dual], -μᾰσῐ [dative, plural], -μᾰσῐν [dative, plural], -masi [dative, plural], -masin [dative, plural], -μᾰ [accusative, singular], -μᾰτε [accusative, dual], -μᾰτᾰ [accusative, plural], -μᾰ [singular, vocative], -μᾰτε [dual, vocative], -μᾰτᾰ [plural, vocative]
  1. Added to verbal stems to form neuter nouns denoting the effect or result of an action, a particular instance of an action, or the object of an action Tags: morpheme

Suffix [Greek]

Etymology: Inherited from the Ancient Greek -μα (-ma). Etymology templates: {{inh|el|grc|-μα}} Ancient Greek -μα (-ma) Head templates: {{head|el|suffix||||||||g=n|g2=|head=|sort=}} -μα • (-ma) n, {{el-suffix|n}} -μα • (-ma) n Inflection templates: {{el-decl-noun|-μα|-ματα|-ματος|-μάτων|-μα|-ματα|-μα|-ματα|note=}} Forms: -ma [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], -μα [nominative, singular], -ματα [nominative, plural], -ματος [genitive, singular], -μάτων [genitive, plural], -μα [accusative, singular], -ματα [accusative, plural], -μα [singular, vocative], -ματα [plural, vocative]
  1. added to a verb form to create gerund and action nouns: Tags: morpheme Synonyms: -ιμο (-imo) [neuter]

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "inh",
        "3": "ine-pro>*-mn̥>nominalizing suffix",
        "id": "nominalizing suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "grk-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*-mə"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic *-mə",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*-mn̥"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "grk-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*-mət-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic *-mət-",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*-mn̥-to-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥-to-",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Hellenic *-mə, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥, with the oblique stem -ματ- (-mat-) from Proto-Hellenic *-mət-, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥-to- (seen also in Latin -mentum).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-μᾰ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ma",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰ",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτε",
      "roman": "-mate",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτος",
      "roman": "-matos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτοιν",
      "roman": "-matoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτων",
      "roman": "-matōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτῐ",
      "roman": "-mati",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτοιν",
      "roman": "-matoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-masi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-masin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰ",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτε",
      "roman": "-mate",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰ",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτε",
      "roman": "-mate",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-μᾰ",
        "2": "-μᾰτος",
        "3": "n",
        "4": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "-μᾰ • (-ma) n (genitive -μᾰτος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-μᾰ",
        "2": "-μᾰτος"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs",
          "parents": [
            "Entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ἀθλέω (athléō, “compete”) → ἄθλημα (áthlēma, “contest”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "ἀθύρω (athúrō, “play”) → ἄθυρμα (áthurma, “toy”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "βδελύττομαι (bdelúttomai, “to feel nausea, to be sick”) → βδέλυγμα (bdélugma, “abomination”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "γράφω (gráphō, “write”) → γράμμα (grámma, “that which is written, letter”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "δέρω (dérō, “flay, skin”) → δέρμα (dérma, “skin”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "ἐκπῑ́νω (ekpī́nō, “drink out”) → ἔκπωμα (ékpōma, “drinking-cup”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "θεωρέω (theōréō, “observe”) → θεώρημα (theṓrēma, “observation, theorem”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "μανθάνω (manthánō, “learn”) → μάθημα (máthēma, “lesson”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "νοέω (noéō, “think”) → νόημα (nóēma, “thought”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "ποιέω (poiéō, “make”) → ποίημα (poíēma, “poem, or in general something made”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "σπείρω (speírō, “sow”) → σπέρμα (spérma, “that which is sown, seed”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "σχίζω (skhízō, “divide”) → σχίσμα (skhísma, “that which is divided”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "τέμνω (témnō, “cut”) → τμῆμα (tmêma, “section”)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Added to verbal stems to form neuter nouns denoting the effect or result of an action, a particular instance of an action, or the object of an action"
      ],
      "id": "en--μα-grc-suffix-yq2aV9uD",
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-μα"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "-μα"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek -μα (-ma)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from the Ancient Greek -μα (-ma).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-ma",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "el-nN-μα-ματα-3b",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μα",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ματα",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ματος",
      "roman": "-matos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μάτων",
      "roman": "-máton",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μα",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ματα",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μα",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ματα",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "2": "suffix",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "g": "n",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-μα • (-ma) n",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "-μα • (-ma) n",
      "name": "el-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-μα",
        "2": "-ματα",
        "3": "-ματος",
        "4": "-μάτων",
        "5": "-μα",
        "6": "-ματα",
        "7": "-μα",
        "8": "-ματα",
        "note": ""
      },
      "name": "el-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Greek",
  "lang_code": "el",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Greek nouns declining like 'ιδίωμα'",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "καπνίζω (kapnízo, “to smoke”) + -μα (-ma) → κάπνισμα (kápnisma, “smoking”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "ζεσταίνω (zestaíno, “to heat up”) + -μα (-ma) → ζέσταμα (zéstama, “warming up”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "τελειώνω (teleióno, “to end”) + -μα (-ma) → τελείωμα (teleíoma, “ending”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "ανοίγω (anoígo, “to open”) + -μα (-ma) → άνοιγμα (ánoigma, “opening”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "added to a verb form to create gerund and action nouns"
      ],
      "id": "en--μα-el-suffix-F-zhZnGb",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "added to a verb form to create gerund and action nouns:"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "-imo",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "-ιμο"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/ma/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-μα"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "inh",
        "3": "ine-pro>*-mn̥>nominalizing suffix",
        "id": "nominalizing suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "grk-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*-mə"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic *-mə",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*-mn̥"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "grk-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*-mət-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Hellenic *-mət-",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "",
        "4": "*-mn̥-to-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥-to-",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Hellenic *-mə, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥, with the oblique stem -ματ- (-mat-) from Proto-Hellenic *-mət-, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥-to- (seen also in Latin -mentum).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-μᾰ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ma",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰ",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτε",
      "roman": "-mate",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτος",
      "roman": "-matos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτοιν",
      "roman": "-matoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτων",
      "roman": "-matōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτῐ",
      "roman": "-mati",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτοιν",
      "roman": "-matoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-masi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-masin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰ",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτε",
      "roman": "-mate",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰ",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτε",
      "roman": "-mate",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-μᾰ",
        "2": "-μᾰτος",
        "3": "n",
        "4": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "-μᾰ • (-ma) n (genitive -μᾰτος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-μᾰ",
        "2": "-μᾰτος"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek 1-syllable words",
        "Ancient Greek entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs",
        "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
        "Ancient Greek lemmas",
        "Ancient Greek neuter nouns",
        "Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension",
        "Ancient Greek neuter suffixes",
        "Ancient Greek noun-forming suffixes",
        "Ancient Greek suffixes",
        "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic",
        "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic",
        "Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
        "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
        "Ancient Greek unaccented terms",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ἀθλέω (athléō, “compete”) → ἄθλημα (áthlēma, “contest”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "ἀθύρω (athúrō, “play”) → ἄθυρμα (áthurma, “toy”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "βδελύττομαι (bdelúttomai, “to feel nausea, to be sick”) → βδέλυγμα (bdélugma, “abomination”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "γράφω (gráphō, “write”) → γράμμα (grámma, “that which is written, letter”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "δέρω (dérō, “flay, skin”) → δέρμα (dérma, “skin”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "ἐκπῑ́νω (ekpī́nō, “drink out”) → ἔκπωμα (ékpōma, “drinking-cup”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "θεωρέω (theōréō, “observe”) → θεώρημα (theṓrēma, “observation, theorem”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "μανθάνω (manthánō, “learn”) → μάθημα (máthēma, “lesson”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "νοέω (noéō, “think”) → νόημα (nóēma, “thought”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "ποιέω (poiéō, “make”) → ποίημα (poíēma, “poem, or in general something made”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "σπείρω (speírō, “sow”) → σπέρμα (spérma, “that which is sown, seed”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "σχίζω (skhízō, “divide”) → σχίσμα (skhísma, “that which is divided”)"
        },
        {
          "text": "τέμνω (témnō, “cut”) → τμῆμα (tmêma, “section”)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Added to verbal stems to form neuter nouns denoting the effect or result of an action, a particular instance of an action, or the object of an action"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ma/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-μα"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "-μα"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek -μα (-ma)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from the Ancient Greek -μα (-ma).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-ma",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "el-nN-μα-ματα-3b",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μα",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ματα",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ματος",
      "roman": "-matos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μάτων",
      "roman": "-máton",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μα",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ματα",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-μα",
      "roman": "-ma",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-ματα",
      "roman": "-mata",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "el",
        "2": "suffix",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "g": "n",
        "g2": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "-μα • (-ma) n",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "-μα • (-ma) n",
      "name": "el-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-μα",
        "2": "-ματα",
        "3": "-ματος",
        "4": "-μάτων",
        "5": "-μα",
        "6": "-ματα",
        "7": "-μα",
        "8": "-ματα",
        "note": ""
      },
      "name": "el-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Greek",
  "lang_code": "el",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Greek entries with incorrect language header",
        "Greek lemmas",
        "Greek neuter suffixes",
        "Greek nouns declining like 'ιδίωμα'",
        "Greek suffixes",
        "Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek",
        "Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "καπνίζω (kapnízo, “to smoke”) + -μα (-ma) → κάπνισμα (kápnisma, “smoking”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "ζεσταίνω (zestaíno, “to heat up”) + -μα (-ma) → ζέσταμα (zéstama, “warming up”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "τελειώνω (teleióno, “to end”) + -μα (-ma) → τελείωμα (teleíoma, “ending”)",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "ανοίγω (anoígo, “to open”) + -μα (-ma) → άνοιγμα (ánoigma, “opening”)",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "added to a verb form to create gerund and action nouns"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "added to a verb form to create gerund and action nouns:"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "/ma/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "-imo",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "-ιμο"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-μα"
}

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