ὑπόμνημα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ὑπομιμνήσκω (hupomimnḗskō) +‎ -μα (-ma).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hy.póm.nɛː.ma/ → /yˈpom.ni.ma/ → /iˈpom.ni.ma/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hy.póm.nɛː.ma/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)yˈpom.ne̝.ma/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /yˈpom.ni.ma/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /yˈpom.ni.ma/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈpom.ni.ma/

Noun

ῠ̔πόμνημᾰ • (hupómnēma) n (genitive ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτος); third declension

1. remembrance, memorial, record
2. a reminder, mention, notice
   1. memorandum, note
   2. (in the plural) minutes of the proceedings of a public body, public records
   3. explanatory notes, commentary
   4. a tablet used for keeping notes, analogous to a commonplace book
3. draft, copy of a letter

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ ῠ̔πόμνημᾰ; τοῦ ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῠ̔πόμνημᾰ tò hupómnēma	τὼ ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτε tṑ hupomnḗmate	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτᾰ tà hupomnḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτος toû hupomnḗmatos	τοῖν ῠ̔πομνημᾰ́τοιν toîn hupomnēmátoin	τῶν ῠ̔πομνημᾰ́των tôn hupomnēmátōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτῐ tôi hupomnḗmati	τοῖν ῠ̔πομνημᾰ́τοιν toîn hupomnēmátoin	τοῖς ῠ̔πομνήμᾰσῐ / ῠ̔πομνήμᾰσῐν toîs hupomnḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ ῠ̔πόμνημᾰ tò hupómnēma	τὼ ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτε tṑ hupomnḗmate	τᾰ̀ ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτᾰ tà hupomnḗmata
Vocative	ῠ̔πόμνημᾰ hupómnēma	ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτε hupomnḗmate	ῠ̔πομνήμᾰτᾰ hupomnḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: υπόμνημα (ypómnima)

Further reading

• “ὑπόμνημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὑπόμνημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὑπόμνημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • annotation idem, page 30.
  • commemoration idem, page 147.
  • memorandum idem, page 524.
  • memorial idem, page 524.
  • note idem, page 562.
  • record idem, page 681.
  • remembrance idem, page 693.
  • reminder idem, page 693.
  • reminiscence idem, page 693.
  • souvenir idem, page 797.