thauma

From Ancient Greek θαῦμᾰ (thaûmă).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtʰau̯.ma]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈtaːu̯.ma]

thauma n (genitive thaumatos); third declension

1. (Occult) wonder, marvel, miracle
   • c. 37 CE – 41 CE, Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.pr:

     alia uos mirari in illo uolo; hoc quod thauma uobis uidetur

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• → English: thaumato-

• “thauma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press