χάσμα

From χάσκω (kháskō, “I yawn, gape”) +‎ -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).

χάσμα • (khásma) n (genitive χάσματος); third declension

1. hollow, chasm, gulf
2. open mouth (of an animal)
3. space, expanse (of the sky and sea)
   • 460 BCE – 430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.85.4:

     ἐκδιδοῖ δὲ ὁ Ἑλλήσποντος ἐς χάσμα πελάγεος τὸ δὴ Αἰγαῖον καλέεται.

     ekdidoî dè ho Hellḗspontos es khásma pelágeos tò dḕ Aigaîon kaléetai.

     The Hellespont empties into a gulf of the sea which we call Aegean. (A. D. Godley, 1920)

• Greek: χάσμα (chásma)
• → Latin: chasma
  • → English: chasm, chasma

• “χάσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χάσμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χάσμα 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
• G5490 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • abyss idem, page 5.
  • aperture idem, page 33.
  • cavity idem, page 120.
  • chasm idem, page 127.
  • cleft idem, page 137.
  • crack idem, page 181.
  • crevice idem, page 184.
  • fissure idem, page 323.
  • gulf idem, page 379.
  • hole idem, page 403.
  • opening idem, page 576.
  • rent idem, page 695.
  • rift idem, page 714.
  • split idem, page 803.
  • yawning idem, page 995.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Learnedly, from Ancient Greek χάσμα (khásma), from χάσκω (kháskō). For the sense "gap", semantic loan from English chasm.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa.zma/
• Hyphenation: χά‧σμα

χάσμα • (chásma) n (plural χάσματα)

1. chasm
2. gap
3. (figuratively) chasm, rift

geology:

• φαράγγι n (farángi)
• χαράδρα f (charádra)

• βάραθρο n (várathro, “precipice”)
• ρήγμα n (rígma, “rift”)

• see: χάσκω (chásko)

• χάσμα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el