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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *poh₂imḗn, an abstract nomen agentis formed from an ablaut of Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂- (“to protect”) and common suffix *-mḗn. Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀕 (po-me), Latin pascō (“put to graze”), pāstor (“shepherd”), Sanskrit पाति (pā́ti), Old English fōda and fēdan (English food and feed).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poi̯.mɛ̌ːn/ → /pyˈmin/ → /piˈmin/
Noun
ποιμήν • (poimḗn) m (genitive ποιμένος); third declension
- shepherd, herdsman
- Synonyms: μηλᾰ́της (mēlátēs), μηλοφῠ́λᾰξ (mēlophúlax)
- shepherd of the people: pastor, teacher, epithet of Agamemnon
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Further reading
- “ποιμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ποιμήν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ποιμήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ποιμήν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ποιμήν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4166 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.