Ἑρμῆς
See also: Ερμής
Ancient GreekEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- Ἑρμᾶς (Hermâs) – Doric, Boeotian
- Ἑρμάων (Hermáōn), Ἑρμάν (Hermán)
- Ἑρμείας (Hermeías), Ἑρμείης (Hermeíēs) – Epic
EtymologyEdit
Uncertain origin; usually linked to ἕρμα (hérma, “heap of stones”), itself of non-Indo-European substrate origin or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”). Beekes instead suggests a Pre-Greek origin.
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /her.mɛ̂ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)erˈme̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /erˈmis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /erˈmis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /erˈmis/
Proper nounEdit
Ἑρμῆς • (Hermês) m (genitive Ἑρμοῦ); first declension
InflectionEdit
Declension of Ἑρμῆς, Ἑρμοῦ / Ἑρμέω (Ionic)
Derived termsEdit
- Ἑρμαῖον (Hermaîon)
- ἕρμαιον (hérmaion)
- Ἑρμαφρόδιτος (Hermaphróditos)
- Ἑρμήδιον (Hermḗdion)
- Ἑρμῆς ἐπεισελήλυθε (Hermês epeiselḗluthe)
- Ἑρμιόνη (Hermiónē)
- ἑρμοδάκτυλον (hermodáktulon)
- Ἑρμοκρᾰ́της (Hermokrátēs)
- Ἑρμόλᾱος (Hermólāos)
DescendantsEdit
- → Coptic: ⲉⲣⲙⲏⲥ (ermēs)
- Greek: Ερμής (Ermís)
- → Latin: Hermēs
- → Old Armenian: Հերմէս (Hermēs)
- Armenian: Հերմես (Hermes)
- → Old Church Slavonic: Ермисъ (Ermisŭ), Ермии (Ermij)
- → Russian: Герме́с (Germés)
ReferencesEdit
- “Ἑρμῆς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἑρμῆς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἑρμῆς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἑρμῆς 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
- G2060 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, page 1,012
- LSJ