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View synonyms for pneuma
pneuma
[ noo-muh, nyoo- ]
noun
- the vital spirit; the soul.
- Theology. the Spirit of God; the Holy Ghost.
pneuma
/ ˈnjuːmə /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pneuma1
1875–80; < Greek pneûma literally, breath, wind, akin to pneîn to blow, breathe
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pneuma1
C19: from Greek: breath, spirit, wind; related to pnein to blow, breathe
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Example Sentences
So the Greek word pneuma, also translated “spirit,” means precisely the same thing.
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More than fifteen centuries elapsed before this pneuma—oxygen—was discovered by Lavoisier.
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Aer may be explained, oti airei ta apo tes ges; or, oti aei rei; or, oti pneuma ex autou ginetai (compare the poetic word aetai).
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The pneuma and the juice concentrate the power of the plant below so that it becomes denser.
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He is a man, but a spiritual man, one in whom spirit or pneuma was the essential principle, so that he was spirit as well as man.
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