ἱμάτιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἷμᾰ (hîma), εἷμᾰ (heîma, “garment”) + -ῐον (-ion).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hiː.má.ti.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)iˈma.ti.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈma.ti.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈma.ti.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈma.ti.on/
Noun
ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον • (hīmátion) n (genitive ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ου); second declension
- outer garment, cloak, mantle
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.47
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 122C
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 114
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 10
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, On Salaried Posts in Great Houses (The Dependent Scholar) 25
- (in the plural) clothes
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.9
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 10
- 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 408
- 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 1093
- a cloth
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.23
- 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 14.109
- 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Various History 8.7
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον; τοῦ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον tò hīmátion | τὼ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ω tṑ hīmatíō | τᾰ̀ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐᾰ tà hīmátia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ου toû hīmatíou | τοῖν ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́οιν toîn hīmatíoin | τῶν ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ων tôn hīmatíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ῳ tôi hīmatíōi | τοῖν ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́οιν toîn hīmatíoin | τοῖς ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́οις toîs hīmatíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον tò hīmátion | τὼ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ω tṑ hīmatíō | τᾰ̀ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐᾰ tà hīmátia | ||||||||||
Vocative | ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον hīmátion | ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ω hīmatíō | ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐᾰ hīmátia | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ῑ̔μᾰτῐοφῠ́λᾰξ (hīmatiophúlax)
Descendants
- English: himation
- Russian: гима́тий (gimátij)
References
- “ἱμάτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱμάτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἱμάτιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2440 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.
- cape idem, page 111.
- cloak idem, page 138.
- mantle idem, page 512.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN