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pneumata

pneumata is the plural of pneuma.

Meaning of pneuma

Noun

pneuma (plural pneumas or pneumata)

  1. A neume.
    • With swaying arms they wail in pneuma over the recreant Bloom.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
  2. The spirit or soul.
    • But bound to reach out and beyond this flesh. / Become Pneuma2019, Maynard Keenan James, “Pneuma”, in Fear Inoculum, performed by Tool
  3. One of three levels of a human being, the spirit, along with the body and soul.

Questions about pneumata

What is pneumata the plural of?
Pneumata is the plural of pneuma.

Words near pneumata in the dictionary

  1. pneuma
  2. pneumas
  3. pneumases
  4. pneumasis
  5. pneumat-
  6. pneumata
  7. pneumate
  8. pneumates
  9. pneumatic
  10. pneumatic bone
  11. pneumatic bones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pneumata (page history and authors); pneuma (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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