Hamadryas
See also: hamadryas
Latin
Alternative forms
- Amādrias (medieval)
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /haˈmaː.dry.as/, [häˈmäːd̪ryäs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈma.dri.as/, [äˈmäːd̪riäs]
Noun
Hamādryas f sg (genitive Hamādryadis or Hamādryados); third declension
- (Greek mythology) Hamadryad, mother of the hamadryads (woodnymphs)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Propertius to this entry?)
Declension
Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Hamādryas |
| Genitive | Hamādryadis Hamādryados |
| Dative | Hamādryadī |
| Accusative | Hamādryadem Hamādryada |
| Ablative | Hamādryade |
| Vocative | Hamādryas |
Descendants
- Translingual: Hamadryas
References
- “Hamadryas”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “Hămādryas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- AMADRIADES 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)
- “hamādryas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hămādry̆ădes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “735/2”
- “Hamadryas” on page 785 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)