ἀτμός

From *ἀετμός (*aetmós) (only attested in an inflected gloss ἀετμόν (aetmón, “wind”)), of uncertain origin. Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), and connected with ἄημι (áēmi, “to breathe, blow”) (as well as ἀϋτμή (aütmḗ, “breath, scent”), which is now considered unrelated); however, this leaves the vocalism unexplained. Despite superficially similar semantics and phonetics, not from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₁t- (“to breathe”) (whence German Atem (“breath”), Sanskrit आत्मन् (ātmán, “breath; soul”)).^[1]

ἀτμός • (atmós) m (genitive ἀτμοῦ); second declension

1. vapor, steam, smoke
2. odor

• → English: atmo-
• Greek: ατμός (atmós)

• “ἀτμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀτμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀτμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀτμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• ἀτμός 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • exhalation idem, page 291.
  • fume idem, page 349.
  • reek idem, page 684.
  • smoke idem, page 787.
  • steam idem, page 814.
  • vapour idem, page 944.
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
• “ἀτμός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011