τέμενος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
For *τέμανος, with assimilation, from Proto-Indo-European *temh₂nos, from *temh₂- (“to cut”); whence τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”). Confer with τέμαχος (témakhos). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀳𐀕𐀜 (te-me-no).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /té.me.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte.me.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈte.me.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈte.me.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈte.me.nos/
Noun
τέμενος • (témenos) n (genitive τεμένους); third declension
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ τέμενος tò témenos |
τὼ τεμένει tṑ teménei |
τᾰ̀ τεμένη tà teménē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τεμένους toû teménous |
τοῖν τεμενοῖν toîn temenoîn |
τῶν τεμενῶν tôn temenôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τεμένει tôi teménei |
τοῖν τεμενοῖν toîn temenoîn |
τοῖς τεμένεσῐ / τεμένεσῐν toîs teménesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ τέμενος tò témenos |
τὼ τεμένει tṑ teménei |
τᾰ̀ τεμένη tà teménē | ||||||||||
Vocative | τέμενος témenos |
τεμένει teménei |
τεμένη teménē | ||||||||||
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References
- “τέμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τέμενος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τέμενος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τέμενος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τέμενος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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