μέριμνα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to remember”). Cognate with Ancient Greek μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering”) and Latin memor (“mindful”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mé.rim.na/ → /ˈme.rim.na/ → /ˈme.rim.na/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mé.rim.na/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.rim.na/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.rim.na/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.rim.na/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.rim.na/

Noun

μέριμνᾰ • (mérimna) f (genitive μερίμνης); first declension

1. care, thought, solicitude
   1. object of care or thought
   2. pursuit, ambition
   3. anxious mind

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μέριμνᾰ; τῆς μερίμνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μέριμνᾰ hē mérimna	τὼ μερίμνᾱ tṑ merímnā	αἱ μέριμναι hai mérimnai
Genitive	τῆς μερίμνης tês merímnēs	τοῖν μερίμναιν toîn merímnain	τῶν μεριμνῶν tôn merimnôn
Dative	τῇ μερίμνῃ têi merímnēi	τοῖν μερίμναιν toîn merímnain	ταῖς μερίμναις taîs merímnais
Accusative	τὴν μέριμνᾰν tḕn mérimnan	τὼ μερίμνᾱ tṑ merímnā	τᾱ̀ς μερίμνᾱς tā̀s merímnās
Vocative	μέριμνᾰ mérimna	μερίμνᾱ merímnā	μέριμναι mérimnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀμεριμνία (amerimnía)
• ἀμέριμνος (amérimnos)
• μεριμνάω (merimnáō)
• μεριμνήματα (merimnḗmata)
• μεριμνητής (merimnētḗs)
• μεριμνητικός (merimnētikós)

References

• “μέριμνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μέριμνα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN