μέρμνος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μερμνάδης (mermnádēs), μέρμνης (mérmnēs)

Etymology

Unknown, but the Oxyrhynchus Papyri claim that the word was Lydian, comparing the Lydian dynasty of the Mermnadae. However, Beekes prefers connecting the word with μόρφνος (mórphnos, “kind of eagle”), which shows that the word is Pre-Greek, in view of the alternation μ/φ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mérm.nos/ → /ˈmerm.nos/ → /ˈmerm.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mérm.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmerm.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmerm.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmerm.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmerm.nos/

Noun

μέρμνος • (mérmnos) m (genitive μέρμνου); second declension

1. sort of hawk

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μέρμνος; τοῦ μέρμνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μέρμνος ho mérmnos	τὼ μέρμνω tṑ mérmnō	οἱ μέρμνοι hoi mérmnoi
Genitive	τοῦ μέρμνου toû mérmnou	τοῖν μέρμνοιν toîn mérmnoin	τῶν μέρμνων tôn mérmnōn
Dative	τῷ μέρμνῳ tôi mérmnōi	τοῖν μέρμνοιν toîn mérmnoin	τοῖς μέρμνοις toîs mérmnois
Accusative	τὸν μέρμνον tòn mérmnon	τὼ μέρμνω tṑ mérmnō	τοὺς μέρμνους toùs mérmnous
Vocative	μέρμνε mérmne	μέρμνω mérmnō	μέρμνοι mérmnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μέρμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μέρμνος 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