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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ῡ̔μήν (hūmḗn) + -ιος (-ios).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hyː.mé.nai̯.os/ → /yˈme.nɛ.os/ → /iˈme.ne.os/
Noun
ῡ̔μέναιος • (hūménaios) m (genitive ῡ̔μεναίου); second declension
- hymenaeus, the wedding or bridal song, sung by the brideʼs attendants as they led her to the bridegroomʼs house
- wedding
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References
- “ὑμέναιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὑμέναιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “ὑμέναιος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
- “ὑμέναιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὑμέναιος”, 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.