Ἑρμῆς

See also: Ερμής

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Ἑρμᾶς (Hermâs) – Doric, Boeotian
Ἑρμάων (Hermáōn), Ἑρμάν (Hermán)
Ἑρμείας (Hermeías), Ἑρμείης (Hermeíēs) – Epic

Etymology

Uncertain origin; usually linked to ἕρμα (hérma, “heap of stones”), itself of non-Indo-European substrate origin or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”). Beekes instead suggests a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /her.mɛ̂ːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)erˈme̝s/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /erˈmis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /erˈmis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /erˈmis/

Proper noun

Ἑρμῆς • (Hermês) m (genitive Ἑρμοῦ); first declension

(Greek mythology) Hermes, a Greek god, the son of Zeus and Maia.

Inflection

Declension of Ἑρμῆς, Ἑρμοῦ / Ἑρμέω (Ionic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	Ἑρμῆς
Genitive	Ἑρμοῦ / Ἑρμέω (Ionic)
Dative	Ἑρμῇ / Ἑρμέᾳ
Accusative	Ἑρμῆν / Ἑρμέην (Ionic) / Ἑρμῆ (late)
Vocative	Ἑρμῆ

Derived terms

Ἑρμαῖον (Hermaîon)
ἕρμαιον (hérmaion)
Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (Hermaphróditos)
Ἑρμήδιον (Hermḗdion)
Ἑρμῆς ἐπεισελήλυθε (Hermês epeiselḗluthe)
Ἑρμιόνη (Hermiónē)
ἑρμοδάκτυλον (hermodáktulon)
Ἑρμοκρᾰ́της (Hermokrátēs)
Ἑρμόλᾱος (Hermólāos)

Descendants

→ Coptic: ⲉⲣⲙⲏⲥ (ermēs)
Greek: Ερμής (Ermís)
→ Latin: Hermēs
→ Old Armenian: Հերմէս (Hermēs)
- Armenian: Հերմես (Hermes)
→ Old Church Slavonic: Ермисъ (Ermisŭ), Ермии (Ermij)
→ Russian: Герме́с (Germés)

References

“Ἑρμῆς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ἑρμῆς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Ἑρμῆς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Ἑρμῆς 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
G2060 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, page 1,012
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