Νεμέα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From νέμος (némos), i.e. the wooded district, and formally from Proto-Hellenic *neméhā, from Proto-Indo-European *neméseh₂, from *nem-.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Νεμέᾱ • (Neméā) f (genitive Νεμέᾱς); first declension

  1. Nemea

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Νεμέᾱ; τῆς Νεμέᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Νεμέᾱ
hē Neméā
Genitive τῆς Νεμέᾱς
tês Neméās
Dative τῇ Νεμέᾳ
têi Neméāi
Accusative τὴν Νεμέᾱν
tḕn Neméān
Vocative Νεμέᾱ
Neméā
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • Νεμέᾳ (Neméāi)
  • Νέμειος (Némeios)

Descendants
  • Greek: Νεμέα (Neméa)
  • Latin: Nemea

References
  • “Νεμέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “Νεμέα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “Νεμέα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.