χίμαρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *kʰímər, R-stem derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeym- (“winter, snow”), complementing the n-stem reflex found in χειμών (kheimṓn). Perhaps originally meaning "winter/year-old (goat)".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰí.ma.ros/ → /ˈçi.ma.ros/ → /ˈçi.ma.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰí.ma.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰi.ma.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.ma.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.ma.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈçi.ma.ros/

Noun

χῐ́μᾰρος • (khímaros) m (genitive χῐμᾰ́ρου); second declension

1. a he-goat
2. a young he-goat (following an ἔριφος (ériphos))

Declension

Second declension of ὁ χῐ́μᾰρος; τοῦ χῐμᾰ́ρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ χῐ́μᾰρος ho khímaros	τὼ χῐμᾰ́ρω tṑ khimárō	οἱ χῐ́μᾰροι hoi khímaroi
Genitive	τοῦ χῐμᾰ́ρου toû khimárou	τοῖν χῐμᾰ́ροιν toîn khimároin	τῶν χῐμᾰ́ρων tôn khimárōn
Dative	τῷ χῐμᾰ́ρῳ tôi khimárōi	τοῖν χῐμᾰ́ροιν toîn khimároin	τοῖς χῐμᾰ́ροις toîs khimárois
Accusative	τὸν χῐ́μᾰρον tòn khímaron	τὼ χῐμᾰ́ρω tṑ khimárō	τοὺς χῐμᾰ́ρους toùs khimárous
Vocative	χῐ́μᾰρε khímare	χῐμᾰ́ρω khimárō	χῐ́μᾰροι khímaroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χῐ́μαιρᾰ (khímaira)
• χῐμᾰ́ρᾰρχος (khimárarkhos)

References

• “χίμαρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “χίμαρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χίμαρος 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • goat idem, page 365.