Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

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

Noun

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

1. 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
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • 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
2. (attributive, βρέφος ἡμίονον) mule-foal
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.266

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• New Latin: hemionus
  • English: hemionus

References

• 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.