ἐμύς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀμύς (amús), ἑμύς (hemús)
Etymology
Unknown. Sommer derives it from ἐμέω (eméō, “to vomit”), because the animal, when breathing out below the surface of water, continuously releases air bubbles. However, Beekes states that -ud- is not an Indo-European suffix, concluding that the word is probably Pre-Greek. The variation ἀ-/ἐ- is also proof of substrate origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.mýs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /eˈmys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈmys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈmys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈmis/
Noun
ἐμῠ́ς • (emús) f (genitive ἐμῠ́δος); third declension
- freshwater tortoise (Emys orbicularis)
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 5.33
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 8.2
Usage notes
This word is primarily feminine but sometimes masculine, as in:
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 8.17
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ, ἡ ἐμῠ́ς; τοῦ, τῆς ἐμῠ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ ἐμῠ́ς ho, hē emús | τὼ ἐμῠ́δε tṑ emúde | οἱ, αἱ ἐμῠ́δες hoi, hai emúdes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς ἐμῠ́δος toû, tês emúdos | τοῖν ἐμῠ́δοιν toîn emúdoin | τῶν ἐμῠ́δων tôn emúdōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ ἐμῠ́δῐ tôi, têi emúdi | τοῖν ἐμῠ́δοιν toîn emúdoin | τοῖς, ταῖς ἐμῠ́σῐ / ἐμῠ́σῐν toîs, taîs emúsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν ἐμῠ́δᾰ tòn, tḕn emúda | τὼ ἐμῠ́δε tṑ emúde | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ἐμῠ́δᾰς toùs, tā̀s emúdas | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἐμῠ́ς emús | ἐμῠ́δε emúde | ἐμῠ́δες emúdes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: emys
- → English: emys
- → Translingual: Emys
Further reading
- “ἐμύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐμύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἐμύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἐμύς”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 419