hymnus

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: hym‧nus

Noun

hymnus m inan

  1. hymn; a song of praise
    Synonym: chvalozpěv

Declension

Declension of hymnus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
singular plural
nominative hymnus hymny
genitive hymnu hymnů
dative hymnu hymnům
accusative hymnus hymny
vocative hymne hymny
locative hymnu hymnech
instrumental hymnem hymny

See also

Further reading

  • “hymnus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “hymnus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “hymnus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).

Pronunciation

Noun

hymnus m (genitive hymnī); second declension

  1. hymn; a song of praise

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative hymnus hymnī
genitive hymnī hymnōrum
dative hymnō hymnīs
accusative hymnum hymnōs
ablative hymnō hymnīs
vocative hymne hymnī

Descendants

References

  • “hymnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hymnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • hymnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “hymnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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