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PRONUNCIATION OF HERMAE

hermae  [ˈhɜːmiː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HERMAE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hermae is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HERMAE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hermae

Herma

A Herma, commonly in English herm, is a sculpture with a head, and perhaps a torso, above a plain, usually squared lower section, on which male genitals may also be carved at the appropriate height. The form originated in Ancient Greece, and was adopted by the Romans, and revived at the Renaissance in the form of term figures and Atlantes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HERMAE


arame
əˈrɑːmiː
confirmee
ˌkɒnfəˈmiː
Cumae
ˈkjuːmiː
damme
ˈdæmiː
gimme
ˈɡɪmiː
kumikumi
kuːmiːkuːmiː
lemme
ˈlɛmiː
mamey
mæˈmiː
mamie
ˈmæmiː
mammee
mæˈmiː
me
miː
mee
miː
mi
miː
Mini-Me
ˈmɪnɪˌmiː
mneme
ˈniːmiː
Normae
ˈnɔːmiː
REME
ˈriːmiː
smee
smiː
strumae
ˈstruːmiː
thermae
ˈθɜːmiː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HERMAE

herm
herma
hermaean
hermai
hermandad
Hermann
Hermannstadt
hermaphrodite
hermaphrodite brig
hermaphroditic
hermaphroditical
hermaphroditically
hermaphroditism
Hermaphroditus
hermatypic
hermeneutic
hermeneutical
hermeneutically
hermeneutics
hermeneutist

WORDS THAT END LIKE HERMAE

ae
algae
curriculum vitae
cymae
dae
didrachmae
drachmae
fae
gae
gemmae
hae
intimae
mammae
nae
reggae
sae
scyphistomae
squamae
tae
vitae

Synonyms and antonyms of hermae in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hermae» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HERMAE

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Translator English - Chinese

hermae
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hermae
570 millions of speakers

English

hermae
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hermae
380 millions of speakers
ar

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hermae
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hermae
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Hermae
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hermae
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hermès
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hermae
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hermen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hermae
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hermae
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hermae
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hermae
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hermae
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हरमा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hermae
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

erme
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hermae
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hermae
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hermae
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Ερμές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hermae
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

hermae
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hermae
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hermae

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HERMAE»

The term «hermae» is used very little and occupies the 159.747 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HERMAE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hermae

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HERMAE»

Discover the use of hermae in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hermae and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hermae Pastor: Veterem Latiram Interpretationem E Codicibus
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Hermas Adolf Hilgenfeld, 2008
2
Love of Glory and the Common Good: Aspects of the Political ...
ALCIBIADES AND THE AFFAIR OF THE HERMAE (6.27-32,6.60-61) The Hermae were boundary-marker statues in Athens that oversaw the fertility of the property they marked. The facts of the affair of the defiling of the Hermae, as Thucydides ...
Michael Palmer, 1992
3
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
In the historical times of Greece, too, it was at Athens that the Hermae were most numerous and most venerated. So great was the demand for these works that the words ip/uryKi(pos, ip/io- 7Au$urb rixtnj, and i pfioyKwptiov, were used as the ...
Sir William Smith, 1853
4
Bell's New Pantheon; Or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, ...
HERMAE, in antiquity, statues of Mercury, called by the Greeks Hermes. They were made of marble, and sometimes of brass, without arms or feet, and set up by both the Greeks and Romans Juvenal compares a person who had degenerated ...
John Bell, 1790
5
Bell's New Pantheon; or Historical dictionary of the gods, ...
HERMAE, in antiquity, statues of Mercury, called by the Greeks Hermes. They were made of marble, and sometimes of brass, without arms or feet, and set up by both the Greeks and Romans. Juvenal compares a person who had degenerated ...
‎1790
6
Plato Critical Assessments
Suppose it is alleged that Alcibiades mutilated the Hermae, and suppose that Socrates was the only eyewitness present. Now consider these two sentences: (1 ) Only Socrates knows whether Alcibiades did mutilate the Hermae (2) Only ...
Nicholas D. Smith, 1998
7
Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades: Story, Text and Moralism
13.10-11 because in the Life of Alcibiades the stories about the Adonia and the mutilation of the Hermae (Alc. 18.6) are separated from those about Socrates' and Meton's doubts about the Sicilian expedition (Alc. 17.5-6) by the section on the ...
Simon Verdegem, 2010
8
New Testament Apocrypha: Writings relating to the Apostles; ...
I, 21901; O. von Gebhardt-A. Hamack, Hermae Pastor graece addita versione latino recentiore e codice Palatine (Pair. Apostol. Opera III), 1 877; R. Joly, Hermas Le Pasteur (SC 53), Paris 21968; M. Whittaker, Der Hirt des Hermas ( GCS 48), ...
Wilhelm Schneemelcher, Robert McLachlan Wilson, 2003
9
Masters and Slaves: Revisioned Essays in Political Philosophy
The Hermae were boundary-marker statues that oversaw the fertility of the property they marked. The facts of the affair of the defiling of the Hermae, as Thucydides presents them (6.27-29, 53, 60-61), are as follows. One night, as the Athenians ...
Michael Palmer, 2001
10
Influence Of The Phallic Idea In The Religions Of Antiquit:
04. Hermae,. Termini,. Pillars. And. Groves. One of the primeval godsofantiquity was Hermes,the SyroEgyptian Thoth, and the Roman Mercury. Kircher identifieshimalso with the god Terminus. This is doubtless true, as Hermes wasagodof ...
C. Staniland Wake, 2014

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HERMAE»

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Arthur Carlyle Magnusson
Art was preceded in death by his wife, Olga Magnusson; his parents; three sisters, Hermae Magnusson, Elsie (Ben) Irons and Jean (Wally) ... «La Crosse Tribune, Nov 13»
2
No one has ever written about passion like Iris Murdoch
... “remain simply and innocent, and you will be like little children who do not know the evil that destroys man's life” (Pastor Hermae,…). «Catholic Herald Online, May 11»
3
The perfect HSC essay
The decision to send him despite the concerns on the destruction of the Hermes [hermae] and the desecration of the mysteries laid the ... «Daily Telegraph, Oct 09»

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