Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• στύμα ‎(stúma) (Aeolic)

Noun

στόμα • ‎(stóma) n ‎(genitive στόματος); third declension

1. mouth (especially as the organ of speech)
2. face
3. The source of a river or stream
4. An opening or fissure in the earth
5. The frontmost part of something

Inflection

References

• στόμα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «στόμα» 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
• «στόμα» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G4750”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • aperture idem, page 33.
  • beak idem, page 66.
  • entrance idem, page 278.
  • estuary idem, page 284.
  • front idem, page 346.
  • inlet idem, page 442.
  • lip idem, page 494.
  • loop-hole idem, page 499.
  • mouth idem, page 544.
  • muzzle idem, page 549.
  • opening idem, page 575.
  • orifice idem, page 579.
  • tongue idem, page 880.
  • utterance idem, page 941.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Noun

στόμα • ‎(stóma) n ‎(plural στόματα)

1. (anatomy) mouth
2. (synecdoche) person

   Η μάνα του είχε δέκα στόματα να θρέψει.

   His mother had ten mouths to feed.

Declension