ἐφήμερος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /e.pʰɛ̌ː.me.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɛˈpʰe.mɛ.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /eˈɸi.me.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /eˈfi.me.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈfi.me.ros/
Adjective
ἐφήμερος • (ephḗmeros) m, f (neuter ἐφήμερον); second declension
- living only one day; short-lived
- for a day; daily; once a day
- (as with φάρμακον (phármakon)) acting or occurring within one day
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | ἐφήμερος ephḗmeros |
ἐφήμερον ephḗmeron |
ἐφημέρω ephēmérō |
ἐφημέρω ephēmérō |
ἐφήμεροι ephḗmeroi |
ἐφήμερᾰ ephḗmera | ||||||||
| Genitive | ἐφημέρου ephēmérou |
ἐφημέρου ephēmérou |
ἐφημέροιν ephēméroin |
ἐφημέροιν ephēméroin |
ἐφημέρων ephēmérōn |
ἐφημέρων ephēmérōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ἐφημέρῳ ephēmérōi |
ἐφημέρῳ ephēmérōi |
ἐφημέροιν ephēméroin |
ἐφημέροιν ephēméroin |
ἐφημέροις ephēmérois |
ἐφημέροις ephēmérois | ||||||||
| Accusative | ἐφήμερον ephḗmeron |
ἐφήμερον ephḗmeron |
ἐφημέρω ephēmérō |
ἐφημέρω ephēmérō |
ἐφημέρους ephēmérous |
ἐφήμερᾰ ephḗmera | ||||||||
| Vocative | ἐφήμερε ephḗmere |
ἐφήμερον ephḗmeron |
ἐφημέρω ephēmérō |
ἐφημέρω ephēmérō |
ἐφήμεροι ephḗmeroi |
ἐφήμερᾰ ephḗmera | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἐφημέρως ephēmérōs |
ἐφημερώτερος ephēmerṓteros |
ἐφημερώτᾰτος ephēmerṓtatos | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | |||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (short-lived): ἐφημέρῐος (ephēmérios)
Derived terms
Terms derived from ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros)
Descendants
Further reading
- ἐφήμερος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἐφήμερος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἐφήμερος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2184 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- day idem, page 197.
- ephemeral idem, page 279.
- evanescent idem, page 284.
- fleet idem, page 327.
- short-lived idem, page 768.
- temporary idem, page 860.
- transient idem, page 889.
- transitory idem, page 889.
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