Ancient Greek edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hellenic *némō, from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (to assign, allot; take). Cognate with English numb, Dutch nemen, German nehmen, and Albanian njeh (count), nëmë (curse).

Pronunciation edit

 

Verb edit

νέμω (némō)

  1. to deal out, distribute, dispense, to count, to divide by number
  2. (of herdsmen), to pasture or graze their flocks, drive to pasture, tend

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References edit

  • νέμω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • νέμω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • νέμω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • νέμω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • νέμω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • νέμω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter