ἄνθεμον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἀνθέω (anthéō).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /án.tʰe.mon/ → /ˈan.θe.mon/ → /ˈan.θe.mon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /án.tʰe.mon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈan.tʰe.mon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈan.θe.mon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈan.θe.mon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈan.θe.mon/

Noun

ἄνθεμον • (ánthemon) n (genitive ἀνθέμου); second declension

1. flower

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ἄνθεμον; τοῦ ἀνθέμου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἄνθεμον tò ánthemon	τὼ ἀνθέμω tṑ anthémō	τᾰ̀ ἄνθεμᾰ tằ ánthemă
Genitive	τοῦ ἀνθέμου toû anthémou	τοῖν ἀνθέμοιν toîn anthémoin	τῶν ἀνθέμων tôn anthémōn
Dative	τῷ ἀνθέμῳ tôi anthémōi	τοῖν ἀνθέμοιν toîn anthémoin	τοῖς ἀνθέμοις toîs anthémois
Accusative	τὸ ἄνθεμον tò ánthemon	τὼ ἀνθέμω tṑ anthémō	τᾰ̀ ἄνθεμᾰ tằ ánthemă
Vocative	ἄνθεμον ánthemon	ἀνθέμω anthémō	ἄνθεμᾰ ánthemă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀνθέμιον (anthémion)
• ἀνθεμόεις (anthemóeis)
• Ἀνθεμοῦς (Anthemoûs)
• βοάνθεμον (boánthemon)
• λευκάνθεμον (leukánthemon)
• χρῡσάνθεμον (khrūsánthemon)

Descendants

• →⇒ Translingual: Anthemis
  • → English: anthemis
  • → French: anthémis
• →⇒ Translingual: Mesembryanthemum
  • → English: mesembryanthemum

Further reading

• ἄνθεμον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄνθεμον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἄνθεμον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “ἄνθεμον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄνθεμον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter