ἀνεμώνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Apparently from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) +‎ -ώνη (-ṓnē, feminine patronymic suffix).[1]

Alternatively, from a Phoenician source, akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان‎ (šaqāʾiq an-nuʿmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים‎ (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).[2][3][4]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.ne.mɔ̌ː.nɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /a.neˈmo.ne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /a.neˈmo.ni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /a.neˈmo.ni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.neˈmo.ni/

Noun

ἀνεμώνη • (anemṓnē) f (genitive ἀνεμώνης); first declension

poppy anemone (Anemone coronaria)
Synonym: φρένιον (phrénion)
(ἀνεμώνη ὀρεία, mountain anemone) Greek anemone (Anemone blanda)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀνεμώνη; τῆς ἀνεμώνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀνεμώνη hē anemṓnē	τὼ ἀνεμώνᾱ tṑ anemṓnā	αἱ ἀνεμῶναι hai anemônai
Genitive	τῆς ἀνεμώνης tês anemṓnēs	τοῖν ἀνεμώναιν toîn anemṓnain	τῶν ἀνεμωνῶν tôn anemōnôn
Dative	τῇ ἀνεμώνῃ têi anemṓnēi	τοῖν ἀνεμώναιν toîn anemṓnain	ταῖς ἀνεμώναις taîs anemṓnais
Accusative	τὴν ἀνεμώνην tḕn anemṓnēn	τὼ ἀνεμώνᾱ tṑ anemṓnā	τᾱ̀ς ἀνεμώνᾱς tā̀s anemṓnās
Vocative	ἀνεμώνη anemṓnē	ἀνεμώνᾱ anemṓnā	ἀνεμῶναι anemônai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: ανεμώνη (anemóni)
→ Latin: anemōnē
- English: anemone
- Translingual: Anemone

References

“ἀνεμώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἀνεμώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἀνεμώνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)

“anemone”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isiah Scroll (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1974), 380; first published in Hebrew, in Jerusalem, 1959.
Babcock, Philip, ed., Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "anemone" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webser, 1993).
C.T. Onions, The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "anemone" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).

[1] “anemone”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[2] Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isiah Scroll (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1974), 380; first published in Hebrew, in Jerusalem, 1959.

[3] Babcock, Philip, ed., Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "anemone" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webser, 1993).

[4] C.T. Onions, The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "anemone" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).