χαμεύνη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- χαμαιεύνη (khamaieúnē), χαμεύνα (khameúna)
Etymology
From χαμαί (khamaí, “near the ground”) + εὐνή (eunḗ, “bed; abode”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰa.měu̯.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰaˈmew.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xaˈme.βni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xaˈme.vni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xaˈme.vni/
Noun
χᾰμεύνη • (khameúnē) f (genitive χᾰμεύνης); first declension
- bed on the ground, pallet-bed
- (in general) bedstead, bedframe
- Synonym: δέμνιον (démnion)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ χᾰμεύνη; τῆς χᾰμεύνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χᾰμεύνη hē khameúnē | τὼ χᾰμεύνᾱ tṑ khameúnā | αἱ χᾰμεῦναι hai khameûnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χᾰμεύνης tês khameúnēs | τοῖν χᾰμεύναιν toîn khameúnain | τῶν χᾰμευνῶν tôn khameunôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χᾰμεύνῃ têi khameúnēi | τοῖν χᾰμεύναιν toîn khameúnain | ταῖς χᾰμεύναις taîs khameúnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χᾰμεύνην tḕn khameúnēn | τὼ χᾰμεύνᾱ tṑ khameúnā | τᾱ̀ς χᾰμεύνᾱς tā̀s khameúnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | χᾰμεύνη khameúnē | χᾰμεύνᾱ khameúnā | χᾰμεῦναι khameûnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- χαμευνάς (khameunás)
- χαμευνέω (khameunéō)
- χαμεύνης (khameúnēs)
- χαμευνία (khameunía)
- χαμεύνιον (khameúnion)
- χαμευνίς (khameunís)
- χάμευνος (khámeunos)
Further reading
- “χαμεύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χαμεύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χαμεύνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette