ἀτμήν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to δμώς (dmṓs, “slave”). Furnée adduces λατμενεία (latmeneía, “slavery”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /at.mɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /atˈme̝n/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /atˈmin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /atˈmin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /atˈmin/
Noun
ἀτμήν • (atmḗn) m (genitive ἀτμένος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ἀτμήν ho atmḗn |
τὼ ἀτμένε tṑ atméne |
οἱ ἀτμένες hoi atménes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀτμένος toû atménos |
τοῖν ἀτμένοιν toîn atménoin |
τῶν ἀτμένων tôn atménōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ἀτμένῐ tōî atménĭ |
τοῖν ἀτμένοιν toîn atménoin |
τοῖς ἀτμέσῐ / ἀτμέσῐν toîs atmésĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ἀτμένᾰ tòn atménă |
τὼ ἀτμένε tṑ atméne |
τοὺς ἀτμένᾰς toùs atménăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀτμήν atmḗn |
ἀτμένε atméne |
ἀτμένες atménes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀτμενία (atmenía)
- ἀτμένιος (atménios)
- ἀτμεύω (atmeúō)
Further reading
- “ἀτμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀτμήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀτμήν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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