χειμών

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 21 December 2016

From χεῖμα (kheîma, “cold, winter”).

χειμών • (kheimṓn) m (genitive χειμῶνος); third declension

winter
Coordinate terms: ἔαρ (éar), θέρος (théros), ὀπώρα (opṓra)
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.549
frost, cold
storm, tempest
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 675
calamity, distress, suffering
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 643

Third declension of ὁ χειμών; τοῦ χειμῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χειμών ho kheimṓn	τὼ χειμῶνε tṑ kheimône	οἱ χειμῶνες hoi kheimônes
Genitive	τοῦ χειμῶνος toû kheimônos	τοῖν χειμώνοιν toîn kheimṓnoin	τῶν χειμώνων tôn kheimṓnōn
Dative	τῷ χειμῶνῐ tōî kheimônĭ	τοῖν χειμώνοιν toîn kheimṓnoin	τοῖς χειμῶσῐ / χειμῶσῐν toîs kheimôsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν χειμῶνᾰ tòn kheimônă	τὼ χειμῶνε tṑ kheimône	τοὺς χειμῶνᾰς toùs kheimônăs
Vocative	χειμών kheimṓn	χειμῶνε kheimône	χειμῶνες kheimônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“χειμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“χειμών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“χειμών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
χειμών 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
χειμών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“χειμών”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G5494 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- gale idem, page 352.
- hurricane idem, page 411.
- inclement idem, page 428.
- shower idem, page 770.
- squall idem, page 807.
- storm idem, page 821.
- tempest idem, page 860.
- tornado idem, page 881.
- winter idem, page 982.