"σμῆνος" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "smēnēdón",
      "word": "σμηνηδόν"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "smēníon",
      "word": "σμηνίον"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "smēniṓn",
      "word": "σμηνιών"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "smēnodókos",
      "word": "σμηνοδόκος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "smēnokómos",
      "word": "σμηνοκόμος"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "smēnourgós",
      "word": "σμηνουργός"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "philósmēnos",
      "word": "φιλόσμηνος"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "σμήνος"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: σμήνος (smínos)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: σμήνος (smínos)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "qsb-grc",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Pre-Greek",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The formation can be compared with ἔθνος (éthnos), ἔρνος (érnos) and τέμενος (témenos). An alternative spelling ζμῆνος (zmênos) is also attested in some papyri and inscriptions, possibly reflecting the voicing of initial /s/ to /z/. According to Beekes, a Pre-Greek origin is a good possibility.\nThe original meaning was probably swarm of bees rather than beehive.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "smênos",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνους",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸ σμῆνος",
      "roman": "tò smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ σμήνη",
      "roman": "tằ smḗnē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ σμήνους",
      "roman": "toû smḗnous",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν σμηνῶν",
      "roman": "tôn smēnôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ σμήνει",
      "roman": "tôi smḗnei",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς σμήνεσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs smḗnesĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs smḗnesĭn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸ σμῆνος",
      "roman": "tò smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ σμήνη",
      "roman": "tằ smḗnē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμῆνος",
      "roman": "smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνη",
      "roman": "smḗnē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Epic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμῆνος",
      "roman": "smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεᾰ",
      "roman": "smḗneă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεος",
      "roman": "smḗneos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνευς",
      "roman": "smḗneus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμηνέων",
      "roman": "smēnéōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνει",
      "roman": "smḗnei",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεῐ̈",
      "roman": "smḗneĭ̈",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεσσῐ",
      "roman": "smḗnessĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεσσῐν",
      "roman": "smḗnessĭn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμῆνος",
      "roman": "smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεᾰ",
      "roman": "smḗneă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμῆνος",
      "roman": "smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεᾰ",
      "roman": "smḗneă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζμῆνος",
      "roman": "zmênos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμᾶνος",
      "roman": "smânos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "σμήνους",
        "2": "n",
        "3": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "σμῆνος • (smênos) n (genitive σμήνους); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "σμῆνος",
        "2": "σμήνους",
        "dial": "att",
        "form": "NSP"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "σμῆνος",
        "2": "σμήνους",
        "DP": "σμήνεσσῐ / σμήνεσσῐν",
        "dial": "epi",
        "form": "NSP"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 40 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "like when bees in vaulted hives\nfeed the drones, partners in base deeds.",
          "ref": "750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 594–595",
          "roman": "kēphênas bóskōsi, kakôn xunḗonas érgōn;",
          "text": "ὡς δ' ὁπότ' ἐν σμήνεσσι κατηρεφέεσσι μέλισσαι\nκηφῆνας βόσκωσι, κακῶν ξυνήονας ἔργων·\nhōs d’ hopót’ en smḗnessi katērephéessi mélissai"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "beehive, skep"
      ],
      "id": "en-σμῆνος-grc-noun-xpoU2iz~",
      "links": [
        [
          "beehive",
          "beehive"
        ],
        [
          "skep",
          "skep"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 46 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 40 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 47 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 49 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You see, all men, the cavalry and infantry,\nlike a swarm of bees, have left with the leader of the army",
          "ref": "472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 126–129",
          "roman": "smênos hṑs ekléloipen melis- / sân sùn orkhámōi stratoû",
          "text": "πᾶς γὰρ ἱππηλάτας / καὶ πεδοστιβὴς λεὼς /\nσμῆνος ὣς ἐκλέλοιπεν μελισ- / σᾶν σὺν ὀρχάμῳ στρατοῦ\npâs gàr hippēlátas / kaì pedostibḕs leṑs /"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "swarm of bees"
      ],
      "id": "en-σμῆνος-grc-noun-TOMcjZ8P",
      "links": [
        [
          "swarm",
          "swarm"
        ],
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "7 46 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 40 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 47 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 49 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "a swarm of dead people hums and rises up",
          "ref": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments, (quoted in Porphyry's \"On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey\")",
          "roman": "bombeî dè nekrôn smênos érkhetaí t’ ánō",
          "text": "βομβεῖ δὲ νεκρῶν σμῆνος ἔρχεταί τ᾿ ἄνω"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "swarm of bees",
        "swarm in general, crowd"
      ],
      "id": "en-σμῆνος-grc-noun-XV1KKeM2",
      "links": [
        [
          "swarm",
          "swarm"
        ],
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ],
        [
          "crowd",
          "crowd"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/zmɛ̂ː.nos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zmɛ̂ː.nos/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzme̝.nos/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "σμῆνος"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Ancient Greek 2-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek neuter nouns",
    "Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek properispomenon terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "smēnēdón",
      "word": "σμηνηδόν"
    },
    {
      "roman": "smēníon",
      "word": "σμηνίον"
    },
    {
      "roman": "smēniṓn",
      "word": "σμηνιών"
    },
    {
      "roman": "smēnodókos",
      "word": "σμηνοδόκος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "smēnokómos",
      "word": "σμηνοκόμος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "smēnourgós",
      "word": "σμηνουργός"
    },
    {
      "roman": "philósmēnos",
      "word": "φιλόσμηνος"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "σμήνος"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: σμήνος (smínos)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: σμήνος (smínos)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "qsb-grc",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Pre-Greek",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The formation can be compared with ἔθνος (éthnos), ἔρνος (érnos) and τέμενος (témenos). An alternative spelling ζμῆνος (zmênos) is also attested in some papyri and inscriptions, possibly reflecting the voicing of initial /s/ to /z/. According to Beekes, a Pre-Greek origin is a good possibility.\nThe original meaning was probably swarm of bees rather than beehive.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "smênos",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνους",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸ σμῆνος",
      "roman": "tò smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ σμήνη",
      "roman": "tằ smḗnē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ σμήνους",
      "roman": "toû smḗnous",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν σμηνῶν",
      "roman": "tôn smēnôn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ σμήνει",
      "roman": "tôi smḗnei",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς σμήνεσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs smḗnesĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs smḗnesĭn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸ σμῆνος",
      "roman": "tò smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ σμήνη",
      "roman": "tằ smḗnē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμῆνος",
      "roman": "smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνη",
      "roman": "smḗnē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Epic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμῆνος",
      "roman": "smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεᾰ",
      "roman": "smḗneă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεος",
      "roman": "smḗneos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνευς",
      "roman": "smḗneus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμηνέων",
      "roman": "smēnéōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνει",
      "roman": "smḗnei",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεῐ̈",
      "roman": "smḗneĭ̈",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεσσῐ",
      "roman": "smḗnessĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεσσῐν",
      "roman": "smḗnessĭn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμῆνος",
      "roman": "smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεᾰ",
      "roman": "smḗneă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμῆνος",
      "roman": "smênos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμήνεᾰ",
      "roman": "smḗneă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζμῆνος",
      "roman": "zmênos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "σμᾶνος",
      "roman": "smânos",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "σμήνους",
        "2": "n",
        "3": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "σμῆνος • (smênos) n (genitive σμήνους); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "σμῆνος",
        "2": "σμήνους",
        "dial": "att",
        "form": "NSP"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "σμῆνος",
        "2": "σμήνους",
        "DP": "σμήνεσσῐ / σμήνεσσῐν",
        "dial": "epi",
        "form": "NSP"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "like when bees in vaulted hives\nfeed the drones, partners in base deeds.",
          "ref": "750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 594–595",
          "roman": "kēphênas bóskōsi, kakôn xunḗonas érgōn;",
          "text": "ὡς δ' ὁπότ' ἐν σμήνεσσι κατηρεφέεσσι μέλισσαι\nκηφῆνας βόσκωσι, κακῶν ξυνήονας ἔργων·\nhōs d’ hopót’ en smḗnessi katērephéessi mélissai"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "beehive, skep"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beehive",
          "beehive"
        ],
        [
          "skep",
          "skep"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You see, all men, the cavalry and infantry,\nlike a swarm of bees, have left with the leader of the army",
          "ref": "472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 126–129",
          "roman": "smênos hṑs ekléloipen melis- / sân sùn orkhámōi stratoû",
          "text": "πᾶς γὰρ ἱππηλάτας / καὶ πεδοστιβὴς λεὼς /\nσμῆνος ὣς ἐκλέλοιπεν μελισ- / σᾶν σὺν ὀρχάμῳ στρατοῦ\npâs gàr hippēlátas / kaì pedostibḕs leṑs /"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "swarm of bees"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swarm",
          "swarm"
        ],
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "a swarm of dead people hums and rises up",
          "ref": "497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments, (quoted in Porphyry's \"On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey\")",
          "roman": "bombeî dè nekrôn smênos érkhetaí t’ ánō",
          "text": "βομβεῖ δὲ νεκρῶν σμῆνος ἔρχεταί τ᾿ ἄνω"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "swarm of bees",
        "swarm in general, crowd"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swarm",
          "swarm"
        ],
        [
          "bee",
          "bee"
        ],
        [
          "crowd",
          "crowd"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/zmɛ̂ː.nos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zmɛ̂ː.nos/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzme̝.nos/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈzmi.nos/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "σμῆνος"
}