Χημία
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Demotic kmj, from Egyptian
(kmt, literally “black land”). Cognate with Bohairic Coptic ⲭⲏⲙⲓ (khēmi) and Sahidic Coptic ⲕⲏⲙⲉ (kēme).
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰɛː.mí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰe̝ˈmi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /çiˈmi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /çiˈmi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /çiˈmi.a/
Proper noun
Χημίᾱ • (Khēmíā) f (genitive Χημίᾱς); first declension
- Egypt
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia V.26.33, (from Isis and Osiris: source link, translation link):
- Ἔτι τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἐν τοῖς μάλιστα μελάγγειον οὖσαν, ὥσπερ τὸ μέλαν τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ, Χημίαν καλοῦσι
- Éti tḕn Aígupton en toîs málista melángeion oûsan, hṓsper tò mélan toû ophthalmoû, Khēmían kaloûsi
- 1927 translation by Frank Cole Babbitt
- Egypt, moreover, which has the blackest of soils, they call by the same name as the black portion of the eye, “Chemia”
- Ἔτι τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἐν τοῖς μάλιστα μελάγγειον οὖσαν, ὥσπερ τὸ μέλαν τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ, Χημίαν καλοῦσι
Declension
Synonyms
- Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos)
Further reading
- Χημία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Χημία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “Χημία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press