hymnus

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɪmnus]
• Hyphenation: hym‧nus

Noun

hymnus m inan

1. hymn; a song of praise

   Synonym: chvalozpěv

Declension

Declension of hymnus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	hymnus	hymny
genitive	hymnu	hymnů
dative	hymnu	hymnům
accusative	hymnus	hymny
vocative	hymne	hymny
locative	hymnu	hymnech
instrumental	hymnem	hymny

See also

• hymna f

Further reading

• “hymnus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “hymnus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “hymnus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhym.nus/, [ˈhʏmnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈim.nus/, [ˈimnus]

Noun

hymnus m (genitive hymnī); second declension

1. hymn; a song of praise

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hymnus	hymnī
Genitive	hymnī	hymnōrum
Dative	hymnō	hymnīs
Accusative	hymnum	hymnōs
Ablative	hymnō	hymnīs
Vocative	hymne	hymnī

Related terms

• hymnidicus
• hymniō
• hymnisonus
• hymnīzō
• hymnōdicus
• hymnologus

Descendants

• Friulian: imni m
• Old French: ymne m or f
  • Middle French: hymne, hynne
    • French: hymne m or f
      • → Romanian: imn n
• Old Galician-Portuguese: yno
  • Galician: himno m
  • Portuguese: hino m
• → Spanish: himno
• → Czech: hymnus
• → Hungarian: hymnus
• → Italian: inno
• → Old English: ymen
  • Middle English: ymne, ympne, impne, ymyn
    • English: hymn
    • Scots: hime
  • Middle Welsh: emynn
    • Welsh: emyn

References

• “hymnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hymnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• hymnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hymnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers