Ἱμέρα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hiː.mé.raː/ → /iˈme.ra/ → /iˈme.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hiː.mé.raː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)iˈme.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈme.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈme.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈme.ra/

Proper noun

Ῑ̔μέρᾱ • (Hīmérā) f (genitive Ῑ̔μέρᾱς); first declension

1. Himera; Termini Imerese, Sicily, Italy

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ῑ̔μέρᾱ; τῆς Ῑ̔μέρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ῑ̔μέρᾱ hē Hīmérā
Genitive	τῆς Ῑ̔μέρᾱς tês Hīmérās
Dative	τῇ Ῑ̔μέρᾳ têi Hīmérāi
Accusative	τὴν Ῑ̔μέρᾱν tḕn Hīmérān
Vocative	Ῑ̔μέρᾱ Hīmérā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ῑ̔μεραῖος (Hīmeraîos)

Descendants

• French: Himère
• Greek: Ιμέρα (Iméra)
• Italian: Imera
• Latin: Himera
• Spanish: Hímera

References

• “Ἱμέρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013