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 • (khĭ́măros) 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 khĭ́măros	τὼ χῐμᾰ́ρω tṑ khĭmắrō	οἱ χῐ́μᾰροι hoi khĭ́măroi
Genitive	τοῦ χῐμᾰ́ρου toû khĭmắrou	τοῖν χῐμᾰ́ροιν toîn khĭmắroin	τῶν χῐμᾰ́ρων tôn khĭmắrōn
Dative	τῷ χῐμᾰ́ρῳ tôi khĭmắrōi	τοῖν χῐμᾰ́ροιν toîn khĭmắroin	τοῖς χῐμᾰ́ροις toîs khĭmắrois
Accusative	τὸν χῐ́μᾰρον tòn khĭ́măron	τὼ χῐμᾰ́ρω tṑ khĭmắrō	τοὺς χῐμᾰ́ρους toùs khĭmắrous
Vocative	χῐ́μᾰρε khĭ́măre	χῐμᾰ́ρω khĭmắrō	χῐ́μᾰροι khĭ́măroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χῐ́μαιρᾰ (khĭ́mairă)
• χῐμᾰ́ρᾰρχος (khĭmắrărkhos)

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.