Definitions for pneuma

pneuma pneu·ma

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

Pneuma is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in pneuma (aemnpu).

Definitions for pneuma

noun

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

Origin of pneuma

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

Examples for pneuma

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for pneuma
Scrable

10

Words with friends

14

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