ἱμάτιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἷμᾰ (hîma), εἷμᾰ (heîma, “garment”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hiː.má.ti.on/ → /iˈma.ti.on/ → /iˈma.ti.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hiː.má.ti.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)iˈma.ti.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈma.ti.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈma.ti.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈma.ti.on/

Noun

ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον • (hīmátion) n (genitive ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ου); second declension

1. outer garment, cloak, mantle
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.47
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 122C
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Timocrates 114
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Camillus 10
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, On Salaried Posts in Great Houses 25
   1. (in the plural) clothes
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.9
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Aphobus 1 10
      • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 408
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 1093
2. a cloth
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.23
   • 36 BCE – 30 BCE, Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library 14.109
   • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, Various History 8.7

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον; τοῦ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον tò hīmátion	τὼ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ω tṑ hīmatíō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐᾰ tà hīmátia
Genitive	τοῦ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ου toû hīmatíou	τοῖν ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́οιν toîn hīmatíoin	τῶν ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ων tôn hīmatíōn
Dative	τῷ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ῳ tôi hīmatíōi	τοῖν ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́οιν toîn hīmatíoin	τοῖς ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́οις toîs hīmatíois
Accusative	τὸ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον tò hīmátion	τὼ ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ω tṑ hīmatíō	τᾰ̀ ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐᾰ tà hīmátia
Vocative	ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐον hīmátion	ῑ̔μᾰτῐ́ω hīmatíō	ῑ̔μᾰ́τῐᾰ hīmátia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ῑ̔μᾰτῐοφῠ́λᾰξ (hīmatiophúlax)

Descendants

• English: himation
• Russian: гима́тий (gimátij)

References

• “ἱμάτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἱμάτιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἱμάτιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2440 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.
  • cape idem, page 111.
  • cloak idem, page 138.
  • mantle idem, page 512.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN