νύμφη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- νύμφα (númpha) (Doric)
Etymology
Unknown. Attempts have been made to link with Latin nūbō (“marry”) (English nubile), from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”), but are problematic, not only because of a wide semantic difference, but also because of the internal nasal. Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BC Attic) IPA(key): /nýmpʰɛ͜ɛ/
- (1st BC Egyptian) IPA(key): /nýmpʰeː/
- (4th AD Koine) IPA(key): /nýmɸi/
- (10th AD Byzantine) IPA(key): /ný̃fi/
- (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /nífi/
Noun
νῠ́μφη • (númphē) f (genitive νῠ́μφης); first declension
- bride, young wife
- young girl
- daughter-in-law
- nymph
- spring, water
- bee or wasp in pupa stage
- male ant
- clitoris
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ νῠ́μφη hē númphē |
τὼ νῠ́μφᾱ tṑ númphā |
αἱ νῠ́μφαι hai númphai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς νῠ́μφης tês númphēs |
τοῖν νῠ́μφαιν toîn númphain |
τῶν νῠμφῶν tôn numphôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ νῠ́μφῃ têi númphēi |
τοῖν νῠ́μφαιν toîn númphain |
ταῖς νῠ́μφαις taîs númphais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν νῠ́μφην tḕn númphēn |
τὼ νῠ́μφᾱ tṑ númphā |
τᾱ̀ς νῠ́μφᾱς tā̀s númphās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νῠ́μφη númphē |
νῠ́μφᾱ númphā |
νῠ́μφαι númphai | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Epic has vocative singular (probably Doric dialect): νύμφα (númpha).
Descendants
Further reading
- νύμφη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- νύμφη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νύμφη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- νύμφη 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
- νύμφη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G3565 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- νύμφη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē).
Noun
νύμφη • (nýmfi) f (plural νύμφες)
- bride
- (Greek mythology) nymph, undine, water sprite, water spirit
- (zoology) nymph, larva
- (zoology) pupa, chrysalis
Declension
declension of νύμφη
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | νύμφη • | νύμφες • |
| genitive | νύμφης • | νυμφών • |
| accusative | νύμφη • | νύμφες • |
| vocative | νύμφη • | νύμφες • |
Synonyms
- (bride): νύφη f (nýfi)
- (chrysalis, pupa): χρυσαλλίδα f (chrysallída)
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