ἀνεμώνη

Ancient Greek[edit]

Apparently from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) +‎ -ώνη (-ṓnē, feminine patronymic suffix).^[1]

Alternatively, from a Phoenician source, akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).^[2]^[3]^[4]

ἀνεμώνη • (anemṓnē) f (genitive ἀνεμώνης); first declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀνεμώνη hē anemṓnē	τὼ ἀνεμώνᾱ tṑ anemṓnā	αἱ ἀνεμῶναι hai anemônai
Genitive	τῆς ἀνεμώνης tês anemṓnēs	τοῖν ἀνεμώναιν toîn anemṓnain	τῶν ἀνεμωνῶν tôn anemōnôn
Dative	τῇ ἀνεμώνῃ têi anemṓnēi	τοῖν ἀνεμώναιν toîn anemṓnain	ταῖς ἀνεμώναις taîs anemṓnais
Accusative	τὴν ἀνεμώνην tḕn anemṓnēn	τὼ ἀνεμώνᾱ tṑ anemṓnā	τᾱ̀ς ἀνεμώνᾱς tā̀s anemṓnās
Vocative	ἀνεμώνη anemṓnē	ἀνεμώνᾱ anemṓnā	ἀνεμῶναι anemônai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἀνεμώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀνεμώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀνεμώνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)

^ “anemone”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
^ Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isiah Scroll (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1974), 380; first published in Hebrew, in Jerusalem, 1959.
^ Babcock, Philip, ed., Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "anemone" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webser, 1993).
^ C.T. Onions, The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "anemone" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).