χεῖμα

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kʰeimə, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéymn̥ (“winter”). Cognate with Sanskrit हिम (hima).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

χεῖμᾰ • (kheîma) n (genitive χείμᾰτος); third declension

  1. winter
  2. frost, cold
  3. storm, tempest

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ χεῖμᾰ; τοῦ χείμᾰτος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τὸ χεῖμᾰ
tò kheîma 		τὼ χείμᾰτε
tṑ kheímate 		τᾰ̀ χείμᾰτᾰ
tà kheímata
Genitive τοῦ χείμᾰτος
toû kheímatos 		τοῖν χειμᾰ́τοιν
toîn kheimátoin 		τῶν χειμᾰ́των
tôn kheimátōn
Dative τῷ χείμᾰτῐ
tôi kheímati 		τοῖν χειμᾰ́τοιν
toîn kheimátoin 		τοῖς χείμᾰσῐ / χείμᾰσῐν
toîs kheímasi(n)
Accusative τὸ χεῖμᾰ
tò kheîma 		τὼ χείμᾰτε
tṑ kheímate 		τᾰ̀ χείμᾰτᾰ
tà kheímata
Vocative χεῖμᾰ
kheîma 		χείμᾰτε
kheímate 		χείμᾰτᾰ
kheímata
Notes:

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χεῖμα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1619-20

Further reading

  • “χεῖμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “χεῖμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “χεῖμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • χεῖμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • χεῖμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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