Definitions for pneumas

pneumas pneu·ma

Spelling: [noo-muh, nyoo-]
IPA: /ˈnu mə, ˈnyu-/

Pneumas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in pneumas (aemnpsu).

Definitions for pneumas

noun

  1. the vital spirit; the soul.
  2. Theology. the Spirit of God; the Holy Ghost.

Origin of pneumas

1875-80; Greek pneûma literally, breath, wind, akin to pneîn to blow, breathe

Examples for pneumas

Another necessity for the support of life is the pneuma which circulates in the vessels.

Apparently the common Greek materialistic use of "pneuma" to indicate "breath" or "wind" or the like is here followed.

More than fifteen centuries elapsed before this pneuma—oxygen—was discovered by Lavoisier.

This pneuma was equivalent to both soul and life, but it was something more.

The pneuma and the juice concentrate the power of the plant below so that it becomes denser.

Apparently Galen refers to the pneuma and the various humours.

The pneuma, or spirit, was in their opinion the cause of health and of disease.

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.

"Psyche" was in the breast; "pneuma" was spread throughout the body; and "Nous" was in the head.

These vessels in the lungs, "through mutual contact" with the branches of the trachea, took in the pneuma.

Word Value for pneumas
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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