μέριμνα

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *mérimnā, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to remember”).

Cognate with μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), Old English ġemimor (“mindful, remembering”) and Latin memor (“mindful”).

μέριμνᾰ • (mérimnă) f (genitive μερίμνης); first declension

First declension of ἡ μέριμνᾰ; τῆς μερίμνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μέριμνᾰ hē mérimnă	τὼ μερίμνᾱ tṑ merímnā	αἱ μέριμναι hai mérimnai
Genitive	τῆς μερίμνης tês merímnēs	τοῖν μερίμναιν toîn merímnain	τῶν μεριμνῶν tôn merimnôn
Dative	τῇ μερίμνῃ tēî merímnēi	τοῖν μερίμναιν toîn merímnain	ταῖς μερίμναις taîs merímnais
Accusative	τὴν μέριμνᾰν tḕn mérimnăn	τὼ μερίμνᾱ tṑ merímnā	τᾱ̀ς μερίμνᾱς tā̀s merímnās
Vocative	μέριμνᾰ mérimnă	μερίμνᾱ merímnā	μέριμναι mérimnai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“μέριμνα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μέριμνα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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