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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hyː.mɛ̌ːn/ → /yˈmin/ → /iˈmin/
Proper noun
Ῡ̔μήν • (Hūmḗn) m (genitive Ῡ̔μένος); third declension
- Hymen or Hymenaios
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- “Ὑμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013