Πολύμνια

See also: Πολυμνία and Πολυμνίᾳ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Πολῠῠ̈́μνῐᾰ (Polŭŭ̈́mnĭă)
• Πολῡμνῐ́ᾱ (Polūmnĭ́ā), Πολῠῠ̈μνῐ́ᾱ (Polŭŭ̈mnĭ́ā)
• Πολῡμνῐ́ς (Polūmnĭ́s), Πολῠῠ̈μνῐ́ς (Polŭŭ̈mnĭ́s)

Etymology

Contraction of Πολῠῠ̈́μνῐᾰ (Polŭŭ̈́mnĭă), from πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s, “many”) +‎ ῠ̔́μνος (hŭ́mnos, “hymn”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /po.ly̌ːm.ni.a/ → /poˈlym.ni.a/ → /poˈlim.ni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /po.ly̌ːm.ni.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /poˈlym.ni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /poˈlym.ni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /poˈlym.ni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /poˈlim.ni.a/

Proper noun

Πολῡ́μνῐᾰ • (Polū́mnĭă) f (genitive Πολῡμνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Polyhymnia (Muse of sacred hymns and poetry)
   • c. 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 78
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 4.7.3

Declension

First declension of ἡ Πολῡ́μνῐᾰ; τῆς Πολῡμνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Πολῡ́μνῐᾰ hē Polū́mnĭă
Genitive	τῆς Πολῡμνῐ́ᾱς tês Polūmnĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ Πολῡμνῐ́ᾳ tēî Polūmnĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν Πολῡ́μνῐᾰν tḕn Polū́mnĭăn
Vocative	Πολῡ́μνῐᾰ Polū́mnĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: Polyhymnia, Polȳmnia
  • English: Polyhymnia

See also

• (Greek mythology Muses) Muse; Καλλιόπη, Κλειώ, Ἐρατώ, Εὐτέρπη, Μελπομένη, Πολύμνια, Τερψιχόρη, Θάλεια, Οὐρανία

References

• “Πολύμνια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Πολύμνια, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011