ἠρέμα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem- (“to rest”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ɛː.ré.ma/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e̝ˈre.ma/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈre.ma/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈre.ma/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈre.ma/

Adverb

ἠρέμᾰ • (ērémă)

softly, calmly, gently
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 62a:
  Καὶ ὁ Κέβης ἠρέμα ἐπιγελάσας, Ἴττω Ζεύς, ἔφη, τῇ αὑτοῦ φωνῇ εἰπών.
  Kaì ho Kébēs ēréma epigelásas, Íttō Zeús, éphē, tēî hautoû phōnēî eipṓn.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
slightly, barely
slowly

Derived terms

ἠρεμάζω (ēremázō)
ἠρεμέστερος (ēremésteros)
ἠρεμέω (ēreméō)
ἠρεμία (ēremía)
ἠρεμίζω (ēremízō)
ἠρέμισμα (ērémisma)
ἤρεμος (ḗremos)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἠρέμα”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 525

Further reading

“ἠρέμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἠρέμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἠρέμα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011