δέμα

From δέω (déō, “to bind”) +‎ -μα (-ma, nominal suffix).

δέμᾰ • (démă) n (genitive δέμᾰτος); third declension

1. band
2. (architecture) clamp, dowel
3. towrope
4. (Byzantine) roadblock, barricade

• δεμάτιον (demátion, diminutive)
  • Greek: δεμάτι (demáti)
    • → Albanian: dhemat — Arbëresh
    • → Ottoman Turkish: دمت (demet), دمد (demet)
      • Turkish: demet
      • → Albanian: demet
      • → Ladino: demet

• Greek: δέμα (déma)
• →⇒ Translingual: Platydema

• δέμα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “δέμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δέμα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “δέμα”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 350

From Byzantine Greek δέμα (déma), from Ancient Greek δέω (déō, “to bind”) + -μα (-ma, nominal suffix).

δέμα • (déma) n (plural δέματα)

1. package, bundle, packet