"μέριμνα" meaning in Ancient Greek

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Noun

IPA: /mé.rim.na/, /ˈme.rim.na/, /ˈme.rim.na/, /mé.rim.na/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈme.rim.na/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈme.rim.na/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈme.rim.na/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈme.rim.na/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From Proto-Hellenic *mérimnā, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to remember”). Cognate with μέρμερος (mérmeros, “anxious”), Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering”) and Latin memor (“mindful”). Etymology templates: {{inh|grc|grk-pro|*mérimnā}} Proto-Hellenic *mérimnā, {{der|grc|ine-pro|*(s)mer-||to remember}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to remember”), {{cog|ang|mimor||mindful, remembering}} Old English mimor (“mindful, remembering”), {{cog|la|memor||mindful}} Latin memor (“mindful”) Head templates: {{grc-noun|μερίμνης|f|first|head=μέριμνᾰ}} μέριμνᾰ • (mérimna) f (genitive μερίμνης); first declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|μέριμνᾰ|ης}} Forms: μέριμνᾰ [canonical], mérimna [romanization], μερίμνης [genitive], Attic declension-1 [table-tags], ἡ μέριμνᾰ [nominative, singular], τὼ μερίμνᾱ [dual, nominative], αἱ μέριμναι [nominative, plural], τῆς μερίμνης [genitive, singular], τοῖν μερίμναιν [dual, genitive], τῶν μεριμνῶν [genitive, plural], τῇ μερίμνῃ [dative, singular], τοῖν μερίμναιν [dative, dual], ταῖς μερίμναις [dative, plural], τὴν μέριμνᾰν [accusative, singular], τὼ μερίμνᾱ [accusative, dual], τᾱ̀ς μερίμνᾱς [accusative, plural], μέριμνᾰ [singular, vocative], μερίμνᾱ [dual, vocative], μέριμναι [plural, vocative]
  1. care, thought, solicitude
    object of care or thought
    Sense id: en-μέριμνα-grc-noun-0K36jQHi Categories (other): Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension: 21 39 40
  2. care, thought, solicitude
    pursuit, ambition
    Sense id: en-μέριμνα-grc-noun-8BFwWfDF Categories (other): Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension: 21 39 40
  3. care, thought, solicitude
    anxious mind, anxiety
    Sense id: en-μέριμνα-grc-noun-aTCVY8GS Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 16 29 55 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the first declension: 21 39 40 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 35 53 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 22 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ἀμεριμνία (amerimnía), ἀμέριμνος (amérimnos), μεριμνάω (merimnáō), μεριμνήματα (merimnḗmata), μεριμνητής (merimnētḗs), μεριμνητικός (merimnētikós)
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      "ipa": "/ˈme.rim.na/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈme.rim.na/"
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}
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      "ipa": "/ˈme.rim.na/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈme.rim.na/"
    },
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      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
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      "ipa": "/ˈme.rim.na/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈme.rim.na/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "μέριμνα"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.