χειμών
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 21 December 2016
Etymology
From χεῖμα (kheîma, “cold, winter”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰeː.mɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰiˈmon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çiˈmon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çiˈmon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çiˈmon/
Noun
χειμών • (kheimṓn) m (genitive χειμῶνος); third declension
- winter
- Coordinate terms: ἔαρ (éar), θέρος (théros), ὀπώρα (opṓra)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.549
- frost, cold
- storm, tempest
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 675
- calamity, distress, suffering
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 643
Declension
Third declension of ὁ χειμών; τοῦ χειμῶνος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ χειμών ho kheimṓn | τὼ χειμῶνε tṑ kheimône | οἱ χειμῶνες hoi kheimônes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χειμῶνος toû kheimônos | τοῖν χειμώνοιν toîn kheimṓnoin | τῶν χειμώνων tôn kheimṓnōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χειμῶνῐ tôi kheimôni | τοῖν χειμώνοιν toîn kheimṓnoin | τοῖς χειμῶσῐ / χειμῶσῐν toîs kheimôsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν χειμῶνᾰ tòn kheimôna | τὼ χειμῶνε tṑ kheimône | τοὺς χειμῶνᾰς toùs kheimônas | ||||||||||
Vocative | χειμών kheimṓn | χειμῶνε kheimône | χειμῶνες kheimônes | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- χειμάζω (kheimázō)
- χειμασία (kheimasía)
References
- “χειμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χειμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χειμών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χειμών 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
- χειμών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “χειμών”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G5494 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- gale idem, page 352.
- hurricane idem, page 411.
- inclement idem, page 428.
- shower idem, page 770.
- squall idem, page 807.
- storm idem, page 821.
- tempest idem, page 860.
- tornado idem, page 881.
- winter idem, page 982.