ἀμύμων
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From ᾰ̓- (a-, “not”) + μῶμος (mômos, “blame, reproach”) + -ων (-ōn).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.my̌ː.mɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈmy.mon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈmy.mon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈmy.mon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈmi.mon/
Adjective edit
ᾰ̓μῡ́μων • (amū́mōn) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓́μῡμον); third declension (Epic, rare in later Greek)
- blameless, noble, excellent
- (Homeric epithet of people, including Aegisthus)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.29–30:
- Μνήσατο γὰρ κατὰ θῡμὸν ἀμῡ́μονος Αἰγίσθοιο,
τόν ῥ’ Ἀγαμεμνονίδης τηλεκλυτὸς ἔκταν’ Ὀρέστης·- Mnḗsato gàr katà thūmòn amū́monos Aigísthoio,
tón rh’ Agamemnonídēs tēleklutòs éktan’ Oréstēs; - For [Zeus] recalled in his heart noble Aegisthus,
whom far-famed Orestes, son of Agamemnon, had slain.
- Mnḗsato gàr katà thūmòn amū́monos Aigísthoio,
- Μνήσατο γὰρ κατὰ θῡμὸν ἀμῡ́μονος Αἰγίσθοιο,
- (Homeric epithet of people, including Aegisthus)
Usage notes edit
The use of the word for Aegisthus, who was not blameless, since he killed Agamemnon with the help of Clytaemnestra, shows that Homeric epithets are not meant to be taken literally.
Inflection edit
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | ᾰ̓μῡ́μων amū́mōn |
ᾰ̓́μῡμον ámūmon |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονε amū́mone |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονε amū́mone |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονες amū́mones |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονᾰ amū́mona | ||||||||
Genitive | ᾰ̓μῡ́μονος amū́monos |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονος amū́monos |
ᾰ̓μῡμόνοιν amūmónoin |
ᾰ̓μῡμόνοιν amūmónoin |
ᾰ̓μῡμόνων amūmónōn |
ᾰ̓μῡμόνων amūmónōn | ||||||||
Dative | ᾰ̓μῡ́μονῐ amū́moni |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονῐ amū́moni |
ᾰ̓μῡμόνοιν amūmónoin |
ᾰ̓μῡμόνοιν amūmónoin |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μοσῐ / ᾰ̓μῡ́μοσῐν amū́mosi(n) |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μοσῐ / ᾰ̓μῡ́μοσῐν amū́mosi(n) | ||||||||
Accusative | ᾰ̓μῡ́μονᾰ amū́mona |
ᾰ̓́μῡμον ámūmon |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονε amū́mone |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονε amū́mone |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονᾰς amū́monas |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονᾰ amū́mona | ||||||||
Vocative | ᾰ̓́μῡμον ámūmon |
ᾰ̓́μῡμον ámūmon |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονε amū́mone |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονε amū́mone |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονες amū́mones |
ᾰ̓μῡ́μονᾰ amū́mona | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ᾰ̓μῡμόνως amūmónōs |
ᾰ̓μῡμονέστερος amūmonésteros |
ᾰ̓μῡμονέστᾰτος amūmonéstatos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading edit
- “ἀμύμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀμύμων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἀμύμων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀμύμων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἀμύμων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- ἀμύμων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette