Νεμέα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νέμος (némos), i.e. the wooded district, and formally from Proto-Hellenic *neméhā, from Proto-Indo-European *neméseh₂, from *nem-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ne.mé.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /neˈme.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /neˈme.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /neˈme.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /neˈme.a/
Proper noun
Νεμέᾱ • (Neméā) f (genitive Νεμέᾱς); first declension
- Nemea
Inflection
First declension of ἡ Νεμέᾱ; τῆς Νεμέᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Νεμέᾱ hē Neméā | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Νεμέᾱς tês Neméās | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Νεμέᾳ têi Neméāi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Νεμέᾱν tḕn Neméān | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Νεμέᾱ Neméā | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Νεμέᾳ (Neméāi)
- Νέμειος (Némeios)
Descendants
- Greek: Νεμέα (Neméa)
- Latin: Nemea
References
- “Νεμέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Νεμέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Νεμέα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018