μεριμνάω
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editDeverbative of μέριμνα (mérimna, “anxiety, concern”). Cognates include Latin memor and Sanskrit स्मरति (smarati, “to think, to recollect”)
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.rim.ná.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me.rimˈna.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /me.rimˈna.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /me.rimˈna.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /me.rimˈna.o/
Verb
editμεριμνάω • (merimnáō)
- to be worried, preoccupied
- The Bible, Matthew 6:28:
- καὶ περὶ ἐνδύματος τί μεριμνᾶτε; καταμάθετε τὰ κρίνα τοῦ ἀγροῦ πῶς αὐξάνουσιν· οὐ κοπιῶσιν οὐδὲ νήθουσιν
- kaì perì endúmatos tí merimnâte; katamáthete tà krína toû agroû pôs auxánousin; ou kopiôsin oudè nḗthousin
- and regarding clothing, why do you worry? See the lilies of the field, how they don't labor or spin (thread), yet they grow
- καὶ περὶ ἐνδύματος τί μεριμνᾶτε; καταμάθετε τὰ κρίνα τοῦ ἀγροῦ πῶς αὐξάνουσιν· οὐ κοπιῶσιν οὐδὲ νήθουσιν
Conjugation
edit Present: μερῐμνᾰ́ω, μερῐμνᾰ́ομαι (Uncontracted)
Imperfect: ἐμερῐ́μνᾰον, ἐμερῐμνᾰόμην (Uncontracted)
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἐμερῐ́μνᾰον | ἐμερῐ́μνᾰες | ἐμερῐ́μνᾰε(ν) | ἐμερῐμνᾰ́ετον | ἐμερῐμνᾰέτην | ἐμερῐμνᾰ́ομεν | ἐμερῐμνᾰ́ετε | ἐμερῐ́μνᾰον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐμερῐμνᾰόμην | ἐμερῐμνᾰ́ου | ἐμερῐμνᾰ́ετο | ἐμερῐμνᾰ́εσθον | ἐμερῐμνᾰέσθην | ἐμερῐμνᾰόμεθᾰ | ἐμερῐμνᾰ́εσθε | ἐμερῐμνᾰ́οντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἐμερῐ́μνων | ἐμερῐ́μνᾱς | ἐμερῐ́μνᾱ | ἐμερῐμνᾶτον | ἐμερῐμνᾱ́την | ἐμερῐμνῶμεν | ἐμερῐμνᾶτε | ἐμερῐ́μνων | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐμερῐμνώμην | ἐμερῐμνῶ | ἐμερῐμνᾶτο | ἐμερῐμνᾶσθον | ἐμερῐμνᾱ́σθην | ἐμερῐμνώμεθᾰ | ἐμερῐμνᾶσθε | ἐμερῐμνῶντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Future: μερῐμνήσω, μερῐμνήσομαι
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | μερῐμνήσω | μερῐμνήσεις | μερῐμνήσει | μερῐμνήσετον | μερῐμνήσετον | μερῐμνήσομεν | μερῐμνήσετε | μερῐμνήσουσῐ(ν) | ||||
optative | μερῐμνήσοιμῐ | μερῐμνήσοις | μερῐμνήσοι | μερῐμνήσοιτον | μερῐμνησοίτην | μερῐμνήσοιμεν | μερῐμνήσοιτε | μερῐμνήσοιεν | |||||
middle | indicative | μερῐμνήσομαι | μερῐμνήσῃ, μερῐμνήσει |
μερῐμνήσεται | μερῐμνήσεσθον | μερῐμνήσεσθον | μερῐμνησόμεθᾰ | μερῐμνήσεσθε | μερῐμνήσονται | ||||
optative | μερῐμνησοίμην | μερῐμνήσοιο | μερῐμνήσοιτο | μερῐμνήσοισθον | μερῐμνησοίσθην | μερῐμνησοίμεθᾰ | μερῐμνήσοισθε | μερῐμνήσοιντο | |||||
active | middle | ||||||||||||
infinitive | μερῐμνήσειν | μερῐμνήσεσθαι | |||||||||||
participle | m | μερῐμνήσων | μερῐμνησόμενος | ||||||||||
f | μερῐμνήσουσᾰ | μερῐμνησομένη | |||||||||||
n | μερῐμνῆσον | μερῐμνησόμενον | |||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Aorist: ἐμερῐ́μνησᾰ, ἐμερῐμνησᾰ́μην
Perfect: μεμερῐ́μνηκᾰ, μεμερῐ́μνημαι
References
edit- “μεριμνάω”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “μεριμνάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μεριμνάω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μεριμνάω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μεριμνάω 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
- “μεριμνάω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3105 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible