ἱμάτιον

Ancient Greek

From ἷμᾰ (hîmă), εἷμᾰ (heîmă, “garment”) +‎ -ῐον (-ĭon).

ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον • (hīmắtĭon) n (genitive ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ου); second declension

outer garment, cloak, mantle
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.47
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 122C
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 114
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 10
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, On Salaried Posts in Great Houses 25
1. (in the plural) clothes
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.9
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 10
  - 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 408
  - 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 1093
a cloth
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.23
- 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 14.109
- 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Various History 8.7

Second declension of τὸ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον; τοῦ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον tò hīmắtĭon	τὼ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ω tṑ hīmătĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐᾰ tằ hīmắtĭă
Genitive	τοῦ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ου toû hīmătĭ́ou	τοῖν ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́οιν toîn hīmătĭ́oin	τῶν ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ων tôn hīmătĭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ῳ tōî hīmătĭ́ōi	τοῖν ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́οιν toîn hīmătĭ́oin	τοῖς ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́οις toîs hīmătĭ́ois
Accusative	τὸ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον tò hīmắtĭon	τὼ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ω tṑ hīmătĭ́ō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐᾰ tằ hīmắtĭă
Vocative	ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον hīmắtĭon	ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ω hīmătĭ́ō	ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐᾰ hīmắtĭă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἱμάτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἱμάτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἱμάτιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
G2440 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.
- cape idem, page 111.
- cloak idem, page 138.
- mantle idem, page 512.
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