χίμαιρα
See also: Χίμαιρα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʰei-
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰí.mai̯.ra/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰi.mɛ.ra/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçi.mɛ.ra/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçi.me.ra/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçi.me.ra/
Noun
χῐ́μαιρᾰ • (khímaira) f (genitive χῐμαίρᾱς); first declension
- a she-goat
- Eustathius 1625.34, (Compare Aristotle, History of Animals 3.21.5)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χῐ́μαιρᾰ hē khímaira |
τὼ χῐμαίρᾱ tṑ khimaírā |
αἱ χῐ́μαιραι hai khímairai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χῐμαίρᾱς tês khimaírās |
τοῖν χῐμαίραιν toîn khimaírain |
τῶν χῐμαιρῶν tôn khimairôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χῐμαίρᾳ têi khimaírāi |
τοῖν χῐμαίραιν toîn khimaírain |
ταῖς χῐμαίραις taîs khimaírais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χῐ́μαιρᾰν tḕn khímairan |
τὼ χῐμαίρᾱ tṑ khimaírā |
τᾱ̀ς χῐμαίρᾱς tā̀s khimaírās | ||||||||||
Vocative | χῐ́μαιρᾰ khímaira |
χῐμαίρᾱ khimaírā |
χῐ́μαιραι khímairai | ||||||||||
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Related terms
Further reading
- “χίμαιρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χίμαιρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χίμαιρα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χίμαιρα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χίμαιρα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Noun
χίμαιρα • (chímaira) f (plural χίμαιρες)
- chimera, chimaera (an unrealistic dream)
- (mythology) chimera, chimaera (a monster)
- (biology) chimera, chimaera (an organism consisting of genetically different parts)
Declension
Declension of χίμαιρα
Further reading
χίμαιρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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