χυμεία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χειμεία (kheimeía), χημεία (khēmeía), χημία (khēmía)

Etymology

According to Zosimos of Panopolis it was named from its supposed inventor, Χύμης/Χήμης/Χείμης, but more probably it is from χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) +‎ -είᾱ (-eíā).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰy.měː.aː/ → /çyˈmi.a/ → /çiˈmi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰy.měː.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kʰyˈmi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /çyˈmi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çyˈmi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çiˈmi.a/

Noun

χῠμείᾱ • (khŭmeíā) f (genitive χῠμείᾱς); first declension

1. art of alloying metals, alchemy

Declension

First declension of ἡ χῠμείᾱ; τῆς χῠμείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ χῠμείᾱ hē khŭmeíā	τὼ χῠμείᾱ tṑ khŭmeíā	αἱ χῠμεῖαι hai khŭmeîai
Genitive	τῆς χῠμείᾱς tês khŭmeíās	τοῖν χῠμείαιν toîn khŭmeíain	τῶν χῠμειῶν tôn khŭmeiôn
Dative	τῇ χῠμείᾳ têi khŭmeíāi	τοῖν χῠμείαιν toîn khŭmeíain	ταῖς χῠμείαις taîs khŭmeíais
Accusative	τὴν χῠμείᾱν tḕn khŭmeíān	τὼ χῠμείᾱ tṑ khŭmeíā	τᾱ̀ς χῠμείᾱς tā̀s khŭmeíās
Vocative	χῠμείᾱ khŭmeíā	χῠμείᾱ khŭmeíā	χῠμεῖαι khŭmeîai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Arabic: اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ) (see there for further descendants)

References

• “χυμεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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, page 1653