Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Ὑμέναιος ‎(Huménaios)

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ymín/

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

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

Proper noun

Ὑμήν • ‎(Humḗn) m ‎(genitive Ὑμένος); third declension

1. Hymen or Hymenaios

Inflection

Descendants

• Greek: Υμήν ‎(Ymín), Υμένας ‎(Yménas)
• Latin: Hymen

References

• Ὑμήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013

Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ymín/

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

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

Noun

ὑμήν • ‎(humḗn) m ‎(genitive ὑμένος); third declension

1. Thin skin, membrane.

Inflection

References

• ὑμήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὑμήν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ὑμήν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Hymen idem, page 1013.
  • membrane idem, page 524.
• 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