Γανυμήδης
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Socrates in Xenophon's Symposium (8.29–30) implies the etymology γᾰ́νῠμαι (gánumai, “to be glad”) + μήδεᾰ (mḗdea, “plans”) + -ης (-ēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡa.ny.mɛ̌ː.dɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɡa.nyˈme̝.de̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɣa.nyˈmi.ðis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ɣa.nyˈmi.ðis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ɣa.niˈmi.ðis/
Proper noun
Γᾰνῠμήδης • (Ganumḗdēs) m (genitive Γᾰνῠμήδεος or Γᾰνῠμήδους); first declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Ganymede
- (Greek mythology) Ganymede
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | Γᾰνῠμήδης Ganumḗdēs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | Γᾰνῠμήδεος / Γᾰνῠμήδευς Ganumḗdeos / Ganumḗdeus | ||||||||||||
| Dative | Γᾰνῠμήδει / Γᾰνῠμήδεῐ̈ Ganumḗdei / Ganumḗdeï | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | Γᾰνῠμήδεᾰ Ganumḗdea | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Γᾰνῠ́μηδες Ganúmēdes | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
References
- “Γανυμήδης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Γανυμήδης in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Γανυμήδης”, 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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011
Greek
Proper noun
Γανυμήδης • (Ganymídis) m
- (Greek mythology) a male given name, equivalent to English Ganymede
- (astronomy) Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter)
Declension
Γανυμήδης
Further reading
Γανυμήδης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
