ὑμήν

See also: Ὑμήν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *syewh₁-. Cognates include Sanskrit स्यूमन् (syū́man), Old Prussian schumeno, and Hittite [script needed] (šumanza).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ῠ̔μήν • (humḗn) m (genitive ῠ̔μένος); third declension

  1. thin skin, membrane.
  2. (marriage) embrace

The term is related to Ὑμήν, the Ancient Greek god of Marriage, so can be used in relation to marriage.

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • French: hymen
    • English: hymen
    • Romanian: himen
    • Turkish: himen

References

  • ὑμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὑμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ὑμήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • 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
  • Liddell & Scott, 2013, p.829.
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