Pneuma Definition

no͝omə, nyo͝o-
noun
The soul or spirit.
Webster's New World

(music) A neume.

Wiktionary

(Gnosticism) One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul.

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Other Word Forms of Pneuma

Noun

Singular:
pneuma
Plural:
pneumas, pneumata

Origin of Pneuma

  • From Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneuma, “wind, breath, spirit"), from πνέω (pneō, “I blow, breathe")

    From Wiktionary

  • Greek pneu- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Pneuma Sentence Examples

  • The Holy Ghost (Pneuma), however, as the Spirit of wisdom for ever dwelling with the Father, controls what the Father has appointed and the Son fulfilled, and this Spirit lives in the church.

  • In this original state of Pneuma God and the world are absolutely identical.

  • For example, in Chapter 1 we have already looked at the Greek word pneuma, which is most often translated ' spirit ' .

  • The Cosmos ` must be conceived as a single whole, its variety being referred to varying stages of condensation in Pneuma.

  • Good and evil, virtues and vices, remarks Plutarch, are all capable of being perceived "; sense, this common basis of all mental activity, is a sort of touch by which the ethereal Pneuma which is the soul's substance!

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Words Starting With

PPNPNE

Words Ending With

AMAUMA

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pneuma

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With P6 Letter Words Ending With A