Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /imátion/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /imátion/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /imátion/

Noun

ἱμάτιον • ‎(himátion) n ‎(genitive ἱματίου); second declension

1. outer garment, cloak, mantle
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.47
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 122.C
   • 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 (The Dependent Scholar) 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
2. a cloth
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.23
   • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Library 14.109
   • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Various History 8.7

Inflection

Descendants

• English: himation
• Russian: гима́тий ‎(gimátij)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, 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