μέριμνα
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Hellenic *mérimnā, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to remember”).
Cognate with μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering”) and Latin memor (“mindful”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.rim.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.rim.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.rim.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.rim.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.rim.na/
Noun
editμέριμνᾰ • (mérimna) f (genitive μερίμνης); first declension
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μέριμνᾰ hē mérimna |
τὼ μερίμνᾱ tṑ merímnā |
αἱ μέριμναι hai mérimnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μερίμνης tês merímnēs |
τοῖν μερίμναιν toîn merímnain |
τῶν μεριμνῶν tôn merimnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μερίμνῃ têi merímnēi |
τοῖν μερίμναιν toîn merímnain |
ταῖς μερίμναις taîs merímnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μέριμνᾰν tḕn mérimnan |
τὼ μερίμνᾱ tṑ merímnā |
τᾱ̀ς μερίμνᾱς tā̀s merímnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μέριμνᾰ mérimna |
μερίμνᾱ merímnā |
μέριμναι mérimnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- ἀμεριμνία (amerimnía)
- ἀμέριμνος (amérimnos)
- μεριμνάω (merimnáō)
- μεριμνήματα (merimnḗmata)
- μεριμνητής (merimnētḗs)
- μεριμνητικός (merimnētikós)
References
edit- “μέριμνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μέριμνα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
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