ἄμητος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀμάω (amáō, “to harvest, gather”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to reap, mow, harvest”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǎː.mɛː.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.me̝.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.mi.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.mi.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.mi.tos/
Noun
ᾱ̓́μητος • (ā́mētos) m (genitive ᾱ̓́μητου); second declension
- harvest
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Genesis 45.6:
- τοῦτο γὰρ δεύτερον ἔτος λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἔτι λοιπὰ πέντε ἔτη, ἐν οἷς οὐκ ἔστιν ἀροτρίασις οὐδὲ ἄμητος.
- toûto gàr deúteron étos limòs epì tês gês, kaì éti loipà pénte étē, en hoîs ouk éstin arotríasis oudè ámētos.
- For this second year there is famine on the earth, and there are yet five years remaining, in which there is to be neither ploughing, nor mowing.
- τοῦτο γὰρ δεύτερον ἔτος λιμὸς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἔτι λοιπὰ πέντε ἔτη, ἐν οἷς οὐκ ἔστιν ἀροτρίασις οὐδὲ ἄμητος.
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ᾱ̓́μητος ho ā́mētos |
τὼ ᾱ̓μήτω tṑ āmḗtō |
οἱ ᾱ̓́μητοι hoi ā́mētoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ᾱ̓μήτου toû āmḗtou |
τοῖν ᾱ̓μήτοιν toîn āmḗtoin |
τῶν ᾱ̓μήτων tôn āmḗtōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ᾱ̓μήτῳ tōî āmḗtōi |
τοῖν ᾱ̓μήτοιν toîn āmḗtoin |
τοῖς ᾱ̓μήτοις toîs āmḗtois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ᾱ̓́μητον tòn ā́mēton |
τὼ ᾱ̓μήτω tṑ āmḗtō |
τοὺς ᾱ̓μήτους toùs āmḗtous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾱ̓́μητε ā́mēte |
ᾱ̓μήτω āmḗtō |
ᾱ̓́μητοι ā́mētoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἄμητος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄμητος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄμητος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄμητος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- ἄμητος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἄμητος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press