Hymettus

English

Alternative forms

• Hymettos

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ὑμηττός (Humēttós).

Proper noun

Hymettus

1. A mountain of Attica, famous for its honey and marble.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 91:

     There flowerie hill, Hymettus with the ſound / Of bees’ induſtrious murmur oft invites / To ſtudious muſing;

   • 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Pyncheon-garden”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 160:

     Thither the bees came, however, and plunged into the squash-blossoms, as if there were no other squash-vines within a long day’s flight, or as if the soil of Hepzibah’s garden gave its productions just the very quality which these laborious little wizards wanted, in order to impart the Hymettus odor to their whole hive of New England honey.

   • 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 557:

     [T]ime had mellowed the marble to the colour of honey, so that unconsciously one thought of the bees of Hymettus, and softened their outlines.

Derived terms

• Hymettian
• Hymettic

Latin

Alternative forms

• Hymettos

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὑμηττός (Humēttós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hyˈmeːt.tus/, [hʏˈmeːt̪ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈmet.tus/, [iˈmɛt̪ːus]

Proper noun

Hymēttus m sg (genitive Hymēttī); second declension

1. A mountain of Attica, famous for its marble and honey

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Hymēttus
Genitive	Hymēttī
Dative	Hymēttō
Accusative	Hymēttum
Ablative	Hymēttō
Vocative	Hymētte

Related terms

• Hymettius

References

• “Hymettus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Hymettus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Hymettus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.