σήμερον

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

σᾱ́μερον (sā́meron) — Doric
τήμερον (tḗmeron) — Attic

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *ťāmeron, for earlier *ki-hāmeron, with the first component from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“this, here”). By surface analysis, a univerbation of κί- (kí-) +‎ ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”).^[1] See also Latin cis, hic.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sɛ̌ː.me.ron/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈse̝.me.ron/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.me.ron/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.me.ron/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.me.ron/

Adverb

σήμερον • (sḗmeron)

today
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 7.30
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.186
- c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 683

Derived terms

σημερινός (sēmerinós)

Descendants

Greek: σήμερα (símera)
Tsakonian: σάμερε (sámere)

See also

χθές (khthés)
αὔριον (aúrion)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τήμερον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1479

Further reading

“σήμερον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
σήμερον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
σήμερον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
G4594 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- to-day idem, page 878.
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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