νύμφη
Ancient GreekEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Maybe from the same origin as Latin nūbō (“marry”) (English nubile), from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”). Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin.
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ným.pʰɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈnym.pʰe/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈnym.ɸi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈnym.fi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈnim.fi/
NounEdit
νῠ́μφη • (númphē) f (genitive νῠ́μφης); first declension
- bride, young wife
- young, nubile woman; marriageable maiden
- daughter-in-law
- (epigraphy) young girl
- nymph
- (poetry) spring, spring water
- doll, puppet
- bee or wasp in pupa stage
- winged male ant
- (anatomy, 2nd century) clitoris
InflectionEdit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ νῠ́μφη hē númphē |
τὼ νῠ́μφᾱ tṑ númphā |
αἱ νῠ́μφαι hai númphai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς νῠ́μφης tês númphēs |
τοῖν νῠ́μφαιν toîn númphain |
τῶν νῠμφῶν tôn numphôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ νῠ́μφῃ têi númphēi |
νῠ́μφαιν númphain |
ταῖς νῠ́μφαις taîs númphais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν νῠ́μφην tḕn númphēn |
νῠ́μφᾱ númphā |
τᾱ̀ς νῠ́μφᾱς tā̀s númphās | ||||||||||
Vocative | νῠ́μφη númphē |
νῠ́μφᾱ númphā |
νῠ́μφαι númphai | ||||||||||
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Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | νῠ́μφη númphē |
νῠ́μφᾱ númphā |
νῠ́μφαι númphai | ||||||||||
Genitive | νῠ́μφης númphēs |
νῠ́μφαιν / νῠ́μφαιῐν / νῠ́μφῃῐν númphai(i)n / númphēiin |
νῠμφᾱ́ων / νῠμφέ͜ων / νῠμφῶν numphā́ōn / numphé͜ōn / numphôn | ||||||||||
Dative | νῠ́μφῃ númphēi |
νῠ́μφαιν / νῠ́μφαιῐν / νῠ́μφῃῐν númphai(i)n / númphēiin |
νῠ́μφῃσῐ / νῠ́μφῃσῐν / νῠ́μφῃς / νῠ́μφαις númphēisi(n) / númphēis / númphais | ||||||||||
Accusative | νῠ́μφην númphēn |
νῠ́μφᾱ númphā |
νῠ́μφᾱς númphās | ||||||||||
Vocative | νῠ́μφη / νύμφᾰ númphē / númpha |
νῠ́μφᾱ númphā |
νῠ́μφαι númphai | ||||||||||
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DescendantsEdit
- → Latin: lympha, limpha
- → Latin: nympha
- Greek: νύμφη f (nýmfi, “bride, nymph, pupa”), νύφη f (nýfi, “bride”)
- → Russian: ни́мфа f (nímfa)
Further readingEdit
- νύμφη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νύμφη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νύμφη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νύμφη 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
- νύμφη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3565 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- νύμφη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
GreekEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē).
NounEdit
νύμφη • (nýmfi) f (plural νύμφες)
- bride
- (Greek mythology) nymph, undine, water sprite, water spirit
- (zoology) nymph, larva
- (zoology) pupa, chrysalis
DeclensionEdit
declension of νύμφη
SynonymsEdit
- (bride): νύφη f (nýfi)
- (chrysalis, pupa): χρυσαλλίδα f (chrysallída)