ἡμικρανία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἡμῐκρᾱ́νῐον (hēmikrā́nion)

Etymology

From ἡμῐ- (hēmi-, half) +‎ κρᾱνῐ́ον (krāníon, “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 • (hēmikrāníā) 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 hēmikrāníā	τὼ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ tṑ hēmikrāníā	αἱ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αι hai hēmikrāníai
Genitive	τῆς ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱς tês hēmikrāníās	τοῖν ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αιν toîn hēmikrāníain	τῶν ἡμῐκρᾱνῐῶν tôn hēmikrāniôn
Dative	τῇ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾳ têi hēmikrāníāi	τοῖν ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αιν toîn hēmikrāníain	ταῖς ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αις taîs hēmikrāníais
Accusative	τὴν ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱν tḕn hēmikrāníān	τὼ ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ tṑ hēmikrāníā	τᾱ̀ς ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱς tā̀s hēmikrāníās
Vocative	ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ hēmikrāníā	ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́ᾱ hēmikrāníā	ἡμῐκρᾱνῐ́αι hēmikrāníai
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