Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xímera/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çímera/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çímeɾa/

Proper noun

Χίμαιρα • ‎(Khímaira) f ‎(genitive Χιμαίρας); first declension

1. Chimera, a mythological animal
2. Chimera, a volcanic site in ancient Lycia, now in Turkey

Inflection

Descendants

• English: Chimera
• Greek: Χίμαιρα ‎(Chímaira)
• Latin: Chimaera

References

• Χίμαιρα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Χίμαιρα 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 1,006

Greek

Proper noun

Χίμαιρα • ‎(Chímaira) f

1. (Greek mythology) Chimera/Chimaera (A creature of mixed parts, usually lion and goat with a dragon's tail.)

Declension

External links

• Χίμαιρα (μυθολογία) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /xímera/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /çímera/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /çímeɾa/

Noun

χίμαιρα • ‎(khímaira) f ‎(genitive χιμαίρας); first declension

1. a she-goat
   • Homer, Iliad 6.181
   • Hesiod, Theogony 322
   • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 232
   • Xenophon, Anabasis 3.2.12
   • Xenophon, Hellenica 4.2.20
   • Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 13.8
   • Sophocles, Fragments 445
   • Eustathius 1625.34, (Compare Aristotle, History of Animals 3.21.5)

Inflection

Related terms

• Χίμαιρα ‎(Khímaira)
• χίμαρος ‎(khímaros)

References

• χίμαιρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χίμαιρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• χίμαιρα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «χίμαιρα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «χίμαιρα» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Chimaera idem, page 1006.
  • goat idem, page 364.

Greek

Noun

χίμαιρα • ‎(chímaira) f ‎(plural χίμαιρες)

1. chimera, chimaera (an unrealistic dream)
2. (mythology) chimera, chimaera (a monster)
3. (biology) chimera, chimaera (an organism consisting of genetically different parts)

Declension

External links

• χίμαιρα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el