ὕμνος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sh₂em- (“sing”). Cognate with Hittite [script needed] (išḫamai, “he sings”), Sanskrit सामन् (sā́man, “song”), Sanskrit सुम्न (sumná, “hymn”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hým.nos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)ym.nos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈym.nos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈym.nos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈim.nos/

Noun

ῠ̔́μνος • (húmnos) m (genitive ῠ̔́μνου); second declension

song, hymn, ode (generally in praise of the gods or heroes)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ῠ̔́μνος; τοῦ ῠ̔́μνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῠ̔́μνος ho húmnos	τὼ ῠ̔́μνω tṑ húmnō	οἱ ῠ̔́μνοι hoi húmnoi
Genitive	τοῦ ῠ̔́μνου toû húmnou	τοῖν ῠ̔́μνοιν toîn húmnoin	τῶν ῠ̔́μνων tôn húmnōn
Dative	τῷ ῠ̔́μνῳ tôi húmnōi	τοῖν ῠ̔́μνοιν toîn húmnoin	τοῖς ῠ̔́μνοις toîs húmnois
Accusative	τὸν ῠ̔́μνον tòn húmnon	τὼ ῠ̔́μνω tṑ húmnō	τοὺς ῠ̔́μνους toùs húmnous
Vocative	ῠ̔́μνε húmne	ῠ̔́μνω húmnō	ῠ̔́μνοι húmnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

εὔυμνος (eúumnos)
Πολύμνια (Polúmnia)
πολύυμνος (polúumnos)
ὑμναγόρης (humnagórēs)
ὑμναγωγός (humnagōgós)
ὑμνάοιδος (humnáoidos)
ὑμνάριον (humnárion)
ὑμνέω (humnéō)
ὑμνηπολέω (humnēpoléō)
ὕμνησις (húmnēsis)
ὑμνήστρια (humnḗstria)
ὑμνητέον (humnētéon)
ὑμνητήρ (humnētḗr)
ὑμνητής (humnētḗs)
ὑμνητικός (humnētikós)
ὑμνητός (humnētós)
ὑμνήτρια (humnḗtria)
ὑμνητρίς (humnētrís)
ὑμνικός (humnikós)
ὑμνίωμες (humníōmes)
ὑμνοάνασσα (humnoánassa)
ὑμνοβρυής (humnobruḗs)
ὑμνογράφος (humnográphos)
ὑμνοδιδάσκαλος (humnodidáskalos)
ὑμνοθέτης (humnothétēs)
ὑμνολογέω (humnologéō)
ὑμνολόγια (humnológia)
ὑμνολογία (humnología)
ὑμνολογίζω (humnologízō)
ὑμνολόγος (humnológos)
ὑμνοποιός (humnopoiós)
ὑμνοπολεύω (humnopoleúō)
ὑμνοπόλος (humnopólos)
ὑμνοτήιαι (humnotḗiai)
ὑμνοτόκος (humnotókos)
ὑμνόφιλος (humnóphilos)
ὑμνώδης (humnṓdēs)
ὑμνῳδάρχης (humnōidárkhēs)
ὑμνῳδέω (humnōidéō)
ὑμνῳδεῖον (humnōideîon)
ὑμνῳδία (humnōidía)
ὑμνῳδός (humnōidós)
φίλυμνος (phílumnos)

Descendants

Armenian: հիմն (himn)
Georgian: ჰიმნი (himni)
Latin: hymnus (see there for further descendants)
Russian: гимн (gimn)

Further reading

ὕμνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ὕμνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ὕμνος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὕμνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
ὕμνος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ὕμνος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G5215 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- anthem idem, page 32.
- chant idem, page 124.
- hymn idem, page 412.
- ode idem, page 569.
- song idem, page 793.

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