ὑμήν

See also: Ὑμήν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *syuh₁-. Cognates include Sanskrit स्यूमन् (syū́man), Old Prussian schumeno, and Hittite [script needed] (šumanza).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ῠ̔μήν (humḗn) m (genitive ῠ̔μένος); third declension

  1. thin skin, membrane.

Inflection

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References

  • ὑμήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὑμήν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ὑμήν 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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
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