ἡμικρανία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἡμῐκρᾱ́νῐον (hēmĭkrā́nĭon)

Etymology

From ἡμῐ- (hēmĭ-, half) +‎ κρᾱνῐ́ον (krānĭ́on, “head; skull”), possibly a calque of Egyptian gs-tp (“migraine”), from gs (“half”) + tp (“head”), although the Egyptian and Greek terms could also be independently derived.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hɛː.mi.kraː.ní.aː/ → /i.mi.kraˈni.a/ → /i.mi.kraˈni.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɛː.mi.kraː.ní.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)e̝.mi.kraˈni.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.mi.kraˈni.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.mi.kraˈni.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.mi.kraˈni.a/

Noun

ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ • (hēmĭkrānĭ́ā) f (genitive ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. pain on one side of the head or face, migraine

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ hē hēmĭkrānĭ́ā	τὼ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ tṑ hēmĭkrānĭ́ā	αἱ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αι hai hēmĭkrānĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱς tês hēmĭkrānĭ́ās	τοῖν ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αιν toîn hēmĭkrānĭ́ain	τῶν ἡμῐκρᾱνῐῶν tôn hēmĭkrānĭôn
Dative	τῇ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾳ têi hēmĭkrānĭ́āi	τοῖν ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αιν toîn hēmĭkrānĭ́ain	ταῖς ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αις taîs hēmĭkrānĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱν tḕn hēmĭkrānĭ́ān	τὼ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ tṑ hēmĭkrānĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s hēmĭkrānĭ́ās
Vocative	ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ hēmĭkrānĭ́ā	ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ hēmĭkrānĭ́ā	ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αι hēmĭkrānĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: hēmicrānia

Further reading

• “ἡμικρανία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἡμικρανία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette