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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *syewh₁-. Cognates include Sanskrit स्यूमन् (syū́man), Old Prussian schumeno, and Hittite (šumanza).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hy.mɛ̌ːn/ → /yˈmin/ → /iˈmin/
Noun
ῠ̔μήν • (humḗn) m (genitive ῠ̔μένος); third declension
- thin skin, membrane.
- (marriage) embrace
The term is related to Ὑμήν, the Ancient Greek god of Marriage, so can be used in relation to marriage.
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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.