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θέμα

Pronunciation: /tʰé.ma/

“θέμα” is an Ancient Greek word. Its 14 meanings in English:

noun

  1. deposited money; treasure; (grain) deposit
  2. loaf heap
  3. coffer
  4. position; (land) situation
  5. nativity; horoscope.
  6. common land
  7. private burial ground
  8. something proposed as a prize
  9. proposition; premiss
  10. case
  11. arbitrary determination
  12. canonical wordform; lemma; lexeme
  13. mode of reduction of an irregular syllogism
  14. a Theme (regional unit of government of the Byzantine Empire from c. the 7ᵗʰ–11ᵗʰ centuries)

Etymology

From τῐ́θημῐ (tĭ́thēmĭ, “to set, put, place”) + -μᾰ (-mă, nominal suffix), and/or directly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁mn̥, leveled to the weak stem *dʰh₁-. Doublet of θῆμᾰ (thêmă) and θημών (thēmṓn).

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