χυμεία

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • χειμεία (kheimeía), χημεία (khēmeía), χημία (khēmía)

Etymology

According to Zosimos of Panopolis it was named from its supposed inventor, Χύμης/Χήμης/Χείμης, but more probably it is from χῠ́μᾰ (khúma) +‎ -είᾱ (-eíā).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

χῠμείᾱ • (khumeíā) f (genitive χῠμείᾱς); first declension

  1. art of alloying metals, alchemy

Declension
First declension of ἡ χῠμείᾱ; τῆς χῠμείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ χῠμείᾱ
hē khumeíā		 τὼ χῠμείᾱ
tṑ khumeíā		 αἱ χῠμεῖαι
hai khumeîai
Genitive τῆς χῠμείᾱς
tês khumeíās		 τοῖν χῠμείαιν
toîn khumeíain		 τῶν χῠμειῶν
tôn khumeiôn
Dative τῇ χῠμείᾳ
têi khumeíāi		 τοῖν χῠμείαιν
toîn khumeíain		 ταῖς χῠμείαις
taîs khumeíais
Accusative τὴν χῠμείᾱν
tḕn khumeíān		 τὼ χῠμείᾱ
tṑ khumeíā		 τᾱ̀ς χῠμείᾱς
tā̀s khumeíās
Vocative χῠμείᾱ
khumeíā		 χῠμείᾱ
khumeíā		 χῠμεῖαι
khumeîai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • Arabic: اَلْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ) (see there for further descendants)

References
  • “χυμεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • 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, page 1653
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