ἀτμήν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to δμώς (dmṓs, “slave”). Furnée adduces λατμενεία (latmeneía, “slavery”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /at.mɛ̌ːn/ → /atˈmin/ → /atˈmin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /at.mɛ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /atˈme̝n/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /atˈmin/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /atˈmin/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /atˈmin/

Noun

ἀτμήν • (atmḗn) m (genitive ἀτμένος); third declension

1. servant, slave

   Synonym: δοῦλος (doûlos)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ ἀτμήν; τοῦ ἀτμένος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀτμήν ho atmḗn	τὼ ἀτμένε tṑ atméne	οἱ ἀτμένες hoi atménes
Genitive	τοῦ ἀτμένος toû atménos	τοῖν ἀτμένοιν toîn atménoin	τῶν ἀτμένων tôn atménōn
Dative	τῷ ἀτμένῐ tôi atméni	τοῖν ἀτμένοιν toîn atménoin	τοῖς ἀτμέσῐ / ἀτμέσῐν toîs atmési(n)
Accusative	τὸν ἀτμένᾰ tòn atména	τὼ ἀτμένε tṑ atméne	τοὺς ἀτμένᾰς toùs atménas
Vocative	ἀτμήν atmḗn	ἀτμένε atméne	ἀτμένες atménes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀτμενία (atmenía)
• ἀτμένιος (atménios)
• ἀτμεύω (atmeúō)

 

Further reading

• “ἀτμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀτμήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀτμήν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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