χεῖμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kʰeimə, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéymn̥ (“winter”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

χεῖμᾰ • (kheîma) n (genitive χείμᾰτος); third declension

  1. winter
  2. frost, cold
  3. storm, tempest

Inflection
Third declension of τὸ χεῖμᾰ; τοῦ χείμᾰτος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ χεῖμᾰ
tò kheîma		 τὼ χείμᾰτε
tṑ kheímate		 τᾰ̀ χείμᾰτᾰ
tà kheímata
Genitive τοῦ χείμᾰτος
toû kheímatos		 τοῖν χειμᾰ́τοιν
toîn kheimátoin		 τῶν χειμᾰ́των
tôn kheimátōn
Dative τῷ χείμᾰτῐ
tôi kheímati		 τοῖν χειμᾰ́τοιν
toîn kheimátoin		 τοῖς χείμᾰσῐ / χείμᾰσῐν
toîs kheímasi(n)
Accusative τὸ χεῖμᾰ
tò kheîma		 τὼ χείμᾰτε
tṑ kheímate		 τᾰ̀ χείμᾰτᾰ
tà kheímata
Vocative χεῖμᾰ
kheîma		 χείμᾰτε
kheímate		 χείμᾰτᾰ
kheímata
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • χειμάζω (kheimázō)
  • χειμάρροος (kheimárrhoos)
  • χειμασία (kheimasía)

Further reading
  • “χεῖμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “χεῖμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “χεῖμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • χεῖμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • χεῖμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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