μέρμνος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- μερμνάδης (mermnádēs), μέρμνης (mérmnēs)
Etymology
Unknown, but the Oxyrhynchus Papyri claim that the word was Lydian, comparing the Lydian dynasty of the Mermnadae. However, Beekes prefers connecting the word with μόρφνος (mórphnos, “kind of eagle”), which shows that the word is Pre-Greek, in view of the alternation μ/φ.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mérm.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmerm.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmerm.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmerm.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmerm.nos/
Noun
μέρμνος • (mérmnos) m (genitive μέρμνου); second declension
- sort of hawk
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μέρμνος; τοῦ μέρμνου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μέρμνος ho mérmnos | τὼ μέρμνω tṑ mérmnō | οἱ μέρμνοι hoi mérmnoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μέρμνου toû mérmnou | τοῖν μέρμνοιν toîn mérmnoin | τῶν μέρμνων tôn mérmnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μέρμνῳ tôi mérmnōi | τοῖν μέρμνοιν toîn mérmnoin | τοῖς μέρμνοις toîs mérmnois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μέρμνον tòn mérmnon | τὼ μέρμνω tṑ mérmnō | τοὺς μέρμνους toùs mérmnous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μέρμνε mérmne | μέρμνω mérmnō | μέρμνοι mérmnoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “μέρμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μέρμνος 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