τέμενος
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *témenos, from Proto-Indo-European *témh₁nos, from *temh₁- (“to cut”); whence τέμνω (témnō, “I cut”). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀳𐀕𐀜 (te-me-no).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /té.me.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte.me.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈte.me.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈte.me.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈte.me.nos/
Noun
[edit]τέμενος • (témenos) n (genitive τεμένους); third declension
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ τέμενος tò témenos |
τὼ τεμένει tṑ teménei |
τᾰ̀ τεμένη tà teménē | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ τεμένους toû teménous |
τοῖν τεμενοῖν toîn temenoîn |
τῶν τεμενῶν tôn temenôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ τεμένει tôi teménei |
τοῖν τεμενοῖν toîn temenoîn |
τοῖς τεμένεσῐ / τεμένεσῐν toîs teménesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ τέμενος tò témenos |
τὼ τεμένει tṑ teménei |
τᾰ̀ τεμένη tà teménē | ||||||||||
Vocative | τέμενος témenos |
τεμένει teménei |
τεμένη teménē | ||||||||||
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References
[edit]- “τέμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τέμενος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τέμενος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τέμενος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- τέμενος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “τέμενος”, 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.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Greek
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]τέμενος • (témenos) n (plural τεμένη)
- a sacred enclosure
- also see ναός m (naós, “temple”)
- (Islam) a mosque
- μουσουλμανικό τέμενος ― mousoulmanikó témenos ― a muslim mosque
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | τέμενος (témenos) | τεμένη (teméni) |
genitive | τεμένους (teménous) | τεμενών (temenón) |
accusative | τέμενος (témenos) | τεμένη (teméni) |
vocative | τέμενος (témenos) | τεμένη (teméni) |
Further reading
[edit]- τέμενος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
- τέμενος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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