ὑμέναιος

See also: Ὑμέναιος

Ancient Greek

From ῡ̔μήν (hūmḗn) +‎ -ιος (-ios).

ῡ̔μέναιος • (hūménaios) m (genitive ῡ̔μεναίου); second declension

hymenaeus, the wedding or bridal song, sung by the brideʼs attendants as they led her to the bridegroomʼs house
wedding

Second declension of ὁ ῡ̔μέναιος; τοῦ ῡ̔μεναίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῡ̔μέναιος ho hūménaios	τὼ ῡ̔μεναίω tṑ hūmenaíō	οἱ ῡ̔μέναιοι hoi hūménaioi
Genitive	τοῦ ῡ̔μεναίου toû hūmenaíou	τοῖν ῡ̔μεναίοιν toîn hūmenaíoin	τῶν ῡ̔μεναίων tôn hūmenaíōn
Dative	τῷ ῡ̔μεναίῳ tōî hūmenaíōi	τοῖν ῡ̔μεναίοιν toîn hūmenaíoin	τοῖς ῡ̔μεναίοις toîs hūmenaíois
Accusative	τὸν ῡ̔μέναιον tòn hūménaion	τὼ ῡ̔μεναίω tṑ hūmenaíō	τοὺς ῡ̔μεναίους toùs hūmenaíous
Vocative	ῡ̔μέναιε hūménaie	ῡ̔μεναίω hūmenaíō	ῡ̔μέναιοι hūménaioi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ὑμέναιος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ὑμέναιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ὑμέναιος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
“ὑμέναιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ὑμέναιος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bridal idem, page 97.
- hymen idem, page 412.
- hymn idem, page 412.
- marriage idem, page 514.
- marriage song idem, page 515.
- nuptials idem, page 563.
- wedding idem, page 971.