ἱμονιά

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from unattested *ἱμων (*himōn), which would match Proto-Germanic *sīmô (“rope”), and also Sanskrit सीमन् (sīman, “border, frontier, margin”), all from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂i-men (“to tie, bind”). Compare ἱμάς (himás), ἱμάω (himáō), ἱμάσθλη (himásthlē) and ἱμαῖος (himaîos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hiː.mo.ni.ǎː/ → /i.mo.niˈa/ → /i.mo.niˈa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hiː.mo.ni.ǎː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)i.mo.niˈa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.mo.niˈa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.mo.niˈa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.mo.niˈa/

Noun

ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́ • (hīmoniā́) f (genitive ἱ̄μονῐᾶς); first declension

1. well-rope

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́; τῆς ἱ̄μονῐᾶς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́ hē hīmoniā́	τὼ ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́ tṑ hīmoniā́	αἱ ἱ̄μονῐαί hai hīmoniaí
Genitive	τῆς ἱ̄μονῐᾶς tês hīmoniâs	τοῖν ἱ̄μονῐαῖν toîn hīmoniaîn	τῶν ἱ̄μονῐῶν tôn hīmoniôn
Dative	τῇ ἱ̄μονῐᾷ têi hīmoniâi	τοῖν ἱ̄μονῐαῖν toîn hīmoniaîn	ταῖς ἱ̄μονῐαῖς taîs hīmoniaîs
Accusative	τὴν ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́ν tḕn hīmoniā́n	τὼ ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́ tṑ hīmoniā́	τᾱ̀ς ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́ς tā̀s hīmoniā́s
Vocative	ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́ hīmoniā́	ἱ̄μονῐᾱ́ hīmoniā́	ἱ̄μονῐαί hīmoniaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• ἱμονιοστρόφος (himoniostróphos)

References

• “ἱμονιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἱμονιά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἱμονιά 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