thema

thema (plural themas or themata)

1. A subject or theme.
   • 1997, Rocco Caopzzi, Reading Eco: An Anthology, page 111:

     Eco has his own image for this method-spiral repetition: every new exploration elevates the solutions to a higher level by expanding the thema's cognitive context.

   • 2013, Siegfried Wenzel, The Art of Preaching, page 151:

     With regard to its division—which is the second main section [of this treatise]—one must diligently examine the meaning of the words that appear in the thema.

• Hatem, Meath, Mehta, Thame, meath, thame

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• IPA^(key): /ˈteː.maː/

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• Hyphenation: the‧ma
• Rhymes: -eːmaː

thema n (plural thema's or themata, diminutive themaatje n)

1. topic, subject, issue
2. (music) theme

• themakanaal
• thematisch
• themavocaal

• → Indonesian: tema

• IPA^(key): /ˈte.ma/

thema (plural themas)

1. subject (e.g., of conversation)

From Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰe.ma/, [ˈt̪ʰɛmä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ma/, [ˈt̪ɛːmä]

thema n (genitive thematis); third declension

1. theme, topic
2. the alignment of celestial bodies at a person's birth, horoscope

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

• Themis

• “thema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thema in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• thema in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

thema m (plural themas)

1. Obsolete spelling of tema (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).