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Hymen

Hymen · m

the god of marriage

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Hȳ^men — Lewis & Short

Hȳ^men, ĕnis, and Hўmĕnaeus or -os, i, m., = *(umh/n, *(ume/naios,

I the god of marriage, of weddings, Hymen.
I Lit.: dum illam educunt huc novam nuptam foras, suavi cantu concelebra omnem hanc plateam Hymenaeo! Io Hymen Hymenaee! Io Hymen! Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 1 sqq.; 15 sq.: jam veniet virgo, jam dicetur Hymenaeus. Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o Hymenaee, Cat. 62, 5 (acc. to the Gr. *(umh\n w)= *(ume/naie); 62, 10 sq.; for which: io Hymen Hymenaee io, Io Hymen Hymenaee, id. 61, 124; 144 sq.: vulgus Hymen Hymenaee vocant, Ov. H. 14, 27; 12, 143: nec quid Hymen, quid Amor, quid sint conubia, curat, id. M. 1, 480: Hymen, id. H. 6, 44: taedas Hymenaeus Amorque Praecutiunt, id. M. 4, 758; so, Hymenaeus, id. ib. 6, 429; 9, 762 et saep.—
B Derivv.: Hўmĕnēĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Hymen, Hymeneal: lex, Mart. Cap. poët. 7, § 1: tripudia, id. 2, § 132 al.
II Transf.
A A nuptial song: et subito nostras hymen cantatus ad aures Venit, Ov. H. 12, 137: hymenaeum qui cantent, Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 7; Ov. M. 12, 215; Stat. S. 2, 7, 87.—Hence, Hўmĕnāĭcus, a, um, adj., = u(menai+ko/s, hymeneal, belonging to a nuptial song: metrum, Serv. de Cent. Metr. 3, 2.—
B Nuptials, a wedding: hymen funestus illaetabilis, Sen. Troad. 861: conubio jungam stabili propriamque dicabo: Hic hymenaeus erit, Verg. A. 4, 127: (Helena) Pergama cum peteret inconcessosque hymenaeos, id. ib. 1, 651; so in plur., Lucr. 4, 1251; Verg. A. 3, 328; 4, 99; Stat. Th. 3, 283.—
2 Transf., of animals, Verg. G. 3, 60.

In the wild

6 of 70 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.