lympha

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (númphē, bride, young girl; spring water). Doublet of nympha.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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lympha f (genitive lymphae); first declension

  1. (poetic) water, especially clear river or spring water.
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.635:
       []; dic corpus properet fluviali spargere lympha, et pecudes secum et monstrata piacula ducat: []
  2. (medicine) water in dropsical people.

Inflection

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative lympha lymphae
Genitive lymphae lymphārum
Dative lymphae lymphīs
Accusative lympham lymphās
Ablative lymphā lymphīs
Vocative lympha lymphae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • lympha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lympha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lympha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • lympha in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung