στρῶμα

Ancient Greek

By surface analysis, στρώννυμι (strṓnnumi) +‎ -μα (-ma). Given the existence of parallel formations in Sanskrit स्तरी॑मन् (stárīman) and Latin strāmen (“litter (straw for bedding)”), it may derive from Proto-Hellenic *strṓmə, from Proto-Indo-European *stérh₃mn̥ (“that which is strewn; bedding”). However, the EIEC suggests that these formations may be independent, but parallel innovations.^[1]^[2]

στρῶμᾰ • (strômă) n (genitive στρώμᾰτος); third declension

Third declension of τὸ στρῶμᾰ; τοῦ στρώμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ στρῶμᾰ tò strômă	τὼ στρώμᾰτε tṑ strṓmăte	τᾰ̀ στρώμᾰτᾰ tằ strṓmătă
Genitive	τοῦ στρώμᾰτος toû strṓmătos	τοῖν στρωμᾰ́τοιν toîn strōmắtoin	τῶν στρωμᾰ́των tôn strōmắtōn
Dative	τῷ στρώμᾰτῐ tōî strṓmătĭ	τοῖν στρωμᾰ́τοιν toîn strōmắtoin	τοῖς στρώμᾰσῐ / στρώμᾰσῐν toîs strṓmăsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸ στρῶμᾰ tò strômă	τὼ στρώμᾰτε tṑ strṓmăte	τᾰ̀ στρώμᾰτᾰ tằ strṓmătă
Vocative	στρῶμᾰ strômă	στρώμᾰτε strṓmăte	στρώμᾰτᾰ strṓmătă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), “?*stérh₃mn̥”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 57
^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006), The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 226: “Both words pertaining to the concept of ‘bed’ are obviously derived from verbal roots and may be independent formations in various groups.”

“στρῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
στρῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “στόρνυμι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1410-1411: “Gr. στρῶμα corresponds to Lat. strāmentum ‘straw’”