Νεμέα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From νέμος (némos), i.e. the wooded district, and formally from Proto-Hellenic *neméhā, from Proto-Indo-European *neméseh₂, from *nem-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ne.mé.aː/ → /neˈme.a/ → /neˈme.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ne.mé.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /neˈme.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /neˈme.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /neˈme.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /neˈme.a/

Proper noun

Νεμέᾱ • (Neméā) f (genitive Νεμέᾱς); first declension

1. Nemea

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Νεμέᾱ; τῆς Νεμέᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Νεμέᾱ hē Neméā
Genitive	τῆς Νεμέᾱς tês Neméās
Dative	τῇ Νεμέᾳ têi Neméāi
Accusative	τὴν Νεμέᾱν tḕn Neméān
Vocative	Νεμέᾱ Neméā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Νεμέᾳ (Neméāi)
• Νέμειος (Némeios)

Descendants

• Greek: Νεμέα (Neméa)
• Latin: Nemea

References

• “Νεμέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Νεμέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Νεμέα”, 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, page 1,018