ἥμισυς

See also: ήμισυς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Particularly: “From ἡμι- (hēmi-) +‎ ?^[1]”

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɛ̌ː.mi.sys/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)e̝.mi.sys/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.mi.sys/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.mi.sys/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.mi.sis/

Adjective

ἥμῐσυς • (hḗmĭsus) m (feminine ἡμίσεια, neuter ἥμισυ); first/third declension

half

Inflection

First and third declension of ἥμῐσῠς; ἡμῐ́σειᾰ; ἥμῐσῠ (Attic)

Number	Singular			Dual			Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ἥμῐσῠς hḗmĭsŭs	ἡμῐ́σειᾰ hēmĭ́seiă	ἥμῐσῠ hḗmĭsŭ	ἡμῐ́σεε hēmĭ́see	ἡμῐσείᾱ hēmĭseíā	ἡμῐ́σεε hēmĭ́see	ἡμῐ́σεις hēmĭ́seis	ἡμῐ́σειαι hēmĭ́seiai	ἡμῐ́ση / ἡμῐ́σεᾰ hēmĭ́sē / hēmĭ́seă
Genitive	ἡμῐ́σους / ἡμῐ́σεος hēmĭ́sous / hēmĭ́seos	ἡμῐσείᾱς hēmĭseíās	ἡμῐ́σους / ἡμῐ́σεος hēmĭ́sous / hēmĭ́seos	ἡμῐσέοιν hēmĭséoin	ἡμῐσείαιν hēmĭseíain	ἡμῐσέοιν hēmĭséoin	ἡμῐσέων hēmĭséōn	ἡμῐσειῶν hēmĭseiôn	ἡμῐσέων hēmĭséōn
Dative	ἡμῐ́σει hēmĭ́sei	ἡμῐσείᾳ hēmĭseíāi	ἡμῐ́σει hēmĭ́sei	ἡμῐσέοιν hēmĭséoin	ἡμῐσείαιν hēmĭseíain	ἡμῐσέοιν hēmĭséoin	ἡμῐ́σεσῐ / ἡμῐ́σεσῐν hēmĭ́sesĭ(n)	ἡμῐσείαις hēmĭseíais	ἡμῐ́σεσῐ / ἡμῐ́σεσῐν hēmĭ́sesĭ(n)
Accusative	ἥμῐσῠν hḗmĭsŭn	ἡμῐ́σειᾰν hēmĭ́seiăn	ἥμῐσῠ hḗmĭsŭ	ἡμῐ́σεε hēmĭ́see	ἡμῐσείᾱ hēmĭseíā	ἡμῐ́σεε hēmĭ́see	ἡμῐ́σεις hēmĭ́seis	ἡμῐσείᾱς hēmĭseíās	ἡμῐ́ση / ἡμῐ́σεᾰ hēmĭ́sē / hēmĭ́seă
Vocative	ἥμῐσῠ hḗmĭsŭ	ἡμῐ́σειᾰ hēmĭ́seiă	ἥμῐσῠ hḗmĭsŭ	ἡμῐ́σεε hēmĭ́see	ἡμῐσείᾱ hēmĭseíā	ἡμῐ́σεε hēmĭ́see	ἡμῐ́σεις hēmĭ́seis	ἡμῐ́σειαι hēmĭ́seiai	ἡμῐ́ση / ἡμῐ́σεᾰ hēmĭ́sē / hēmĭ́seă
Derived forms	Adverb			Comparative			Superlative
Derived forms	ἡμῐσέως hēmĭséōs			ἡμῐσῠ́τερος hēmĭsŭ́teros			ἡμῐσῠ́τᾰτος hēmĭsŭ́tătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

This is one of the three adjectives in -ύς, -εῖα, -ύ, along with θῆλυς (thêlus) and πρέσβυς (présbus), to have a recessive accent.

Descendants

Byzantine Greek: ἥμισος (hḗmisos)
- Greek: μισός (misós)
Greek: ημι- (imi-), ήμισυς (ímisys)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἡμι- (> DER 1. ἥμισυς)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 519-20

“ἥμισυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἥμισυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἥμισυς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἥμισυς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
ἥμισυς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“ἥμισυς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2255 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- half idem, page 381.

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἡμι- (> DER 1. ἥμισυς)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 519-20

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