χειμών

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 21 December 2016

Etymology

From χεῖμα (kheîma, “cold, winter”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰeː.mɔ̌ːn/ → /çiˈmon/ → /çiˈmon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰeː.mɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰiˈmon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çiˈmon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çiˈmon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çiˈmon/

Noun

χειμών • (kheimṓn) m (genitive χειμῶνος); third declension

1. winter

   Coordinate terms: ἔαρ (éar), θέρος (théros), ὀπώρα (opṓra)

   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.549
2. frost, cold
3. storm, tempest
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 675
4. calamity, distress, suffering
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 643

Declension

Third declension of ὁ χειμών; τοῦ χειμῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χειμών ho kheimṓn	τὼ χειμῶνε tṑ kheimône	οἱ χειμῶνες hoi kheimônes
Genitive	τοῦ χειμῶνος toû kheimônos	τοῖν χειμώνοιν toîn kheimṓnoin	τῶν χειμώνων tôn kheimṓnōn
Dative	τῷ χειμῶνῐ tôi kheimôni	τοῖν χειμώνοιν toîn kheimṓnoin	τοῖς χειμῶσῐ / χειμῶσῐν toîs kheimôsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν χειμῶνᾰ tòn kheimôna	τὼ χειμῶνε tṑ kheimône	τοὺς χειμῶνᾰς toùs kheimônas
Vocative	χειμών kheimṓn	χειμῶνε kheimône	χειμῶνες kheimônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• χειμάζω (kheimázō)
• χειμασία (kheimasía)

References

• “χειμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χειμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “χειμών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• χειμών 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
• χειμών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “χειμών”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G5494 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • gale idem, page 352.
  • hurricane idem, page 411.
  • inclement idem, page 428.
  • shower idem, page 770.
  • squall idem, page 807.
  • storm idem, page 821.
  • tempest idem, page 860.
  • tornado idem, page 881.
  • winter idem, page 982.