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
Third declension of ὁ ῠ̔μήν; τοῦ ῠ̔μένος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ῠ̔μήν
ho humḗn		 τὼ ῠ̔μένε
tṑ huméne		 οἱ ῠ̔μένες
hoi huménes
Genitive τοῦ ῠ̔μένος
toû huménos		 τοῖν ῠ̔μένοιν
toîn huménoin		 τῶν ῠ̔μένων
tôn huménōn
Dative τῷ ῠ̔μένῐ
tôi huméni		 τοῖν ῠ̔μένοιν
toîn huménoin		 τοῖς ῠ̔μέσῐ / ῠ̔μέσῐν
toîs humési(n)
Accusative τὸν ῠ̔μένᾰ
tòn huména		 τὼ ῠ̔μένε
tṑ huméne		 τοὺς ῠ̔μένᾰς
toùs huménas
Vocative ῠ̔μήν
humḗn		 ῠ̔μένε
huméne		 ῠ̔μένες
huménes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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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