ποιμήν

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *poimḗn, from Proto-Indo-European *poh₂imḗn, an abstract agent noun formed from an ablaut of *peh₂- (“to protect”) + *-mḗn. Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀕 (po-me), Latin pascō (“to put to graze”), pāstor (“shepherd”), Sanskrit पाति (pā́ti), Lithuanian piemuõ, Old English fōda and fēdan (English food and feed).

ποιμήν • (poimḗn) m (genitive ποιμένος); third declension

Third declension of ὁ ποιμήν; τοῦ ποιμένος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ποιμήν ho poimḗn	τὼ ποιμένε tṑ poiméne	οἱ ποιμένες hoi poiménes
Genitive	τοῦ ποιμένος toû poiménos	τοῖν ποιμένοιν toîn poiménoin	τῶν ποιμένων tôn poiménōn
Dative	τῷ ποιμένῐ tōî poiménĭ	τοῖν ποιμένοιν toîn poiménoin	τοῖς ποιμέσῐ / ποιμέσῐν toîs poimésĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν ποιμένᾰ tòn poiménă	τὼ ποιμένε tṑ poiméne	τοὺς ποιμένᾰς toùs poiménăs
Vocative	ποιμήν poimḗn	ποιμένε poiméne	ποιμένες poiménes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.