Hamadryas

See also: hamadryas

Latin

Alternative forms

• Amādrias (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /haˈmaː.dry.as/, [häˈmäːd̪ryäs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈma.dri.as/, [äˈmäːd̪riäs]

Noun

Hamādryas f sg (genitive Hamādryadis or Hamādryados); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Hamadryad, mother of the hamadryads (woodnymphs)

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Declension

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Hamādryas
Genitive	Hamādryadis Hamādryados
Dative	Hamādryadī
Accusative	Hamādryadem Hamādryada
Ablative	Hamādryade
Vocative	Hamādryas

Descendants

• Translingual: Hamadryas

References

• “Hamadryas”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Hămādryas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• AMADRIADES in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “hamādryas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hămādry̆ădes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “735/2”
• “Hamadryas” on page 785 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)