ἡμίονος

See also: ημίονος

Ancient Greek

αἰμῐ́ονος (aimíonos) – Aeolic
- 630 BCE – 570 BCE, Sappho, Papyrus Fragments 20a.14

ἡμῐ- (hēmi-, “half”) +‎ ὄνος (ónos, “donkey”)

ἡμῐ́ονος • (hēmíonos) f (genitive ἡμῐόνου); second declension

mule, half ass
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.852
  , 10.352, 17.742, 23.654, 24.702
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 6.22
- 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 27e
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 6.22
- 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 996
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 3.3.4
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.153
1. (figuratively, ἡμίονος βασιλεύς) half-Mede, half-Persian
  - 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.55
2. (ἡμίονος ἀγροτέρα) wild ass, onager
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 2.852
  - 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.6
    , 6.36
(attributive, βρέφος ἡμίονον) mule-foal
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.266

Second declension of ἡ ἡμῐ́ονος; τῆς ἡμῐόνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἡμῐ́ονος hē hēmíonos	τὼ ἡμῐόνω tṑ hēmiónō	αἱ ἡμῐ́ονοι hai hēmíonoi
Genitive	τῆς ἡμῐόνου tês hēmiónou	τοῖν ἡμῐόνοιν toîn hēmiónoin	τῶν ἡμῐόνων tôn hēmiónōn
Dative	τῇ ἡμῐόνῳ têi hēmiónōi	τοῖν ἡμῐόνοιν toîn hēmiónoin	ταῖς ἡμῐόνοις taîs hēmiónois
Accusative	τὴν ἡμῐ́ονον tḕn hēmíonon	τὼ ἡμῐόνω tṑ hēmiónō	τᾱ̀ς ἡμῐόνους tā̀s hēmiónous
Vocative	ἡμῐ́ονε hēmíone	ἡμῐόνω hēmiónō	ἡμῐ́ονοι hēmíonoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Terms derived from ἡμίονος (hēmíonos)

ἡμίονος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἡμίονος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἡμίονος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἡμίονος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἡμίονος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἡμίονος 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.
- mule idem, page 546.

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