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From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês), itself of disputed meaning and origin, possibly of non-Indo-European substrate or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝmiːz/

Hermes

1. (Greek mythology) The herald and messenger of the gods, and the god of roads, commerce, invention, cunning, and theft.
2. The Egyptian Thoth, identified with the Greek Hermes.
3. (astronomy) The planet Mercury when observed as an evening star.

• (Roman mythology) Mercury

• (astronomy) Apollo

• Hermesian

Hermes (plural Hermae)

1. (art) A head or bust on a square base, often double-faced.

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus
• Mercury
• Hermia
• Hermione

• herems, rehems, rhemes, shmeer

From Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈer.məs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈeɾ.mes]

Hermes m

1. Hermes

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦɛrmɛs]

Hermes m anim (related adjective Hermův)

1. (Greek mythology) Hermes

• “Hermes”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Hermes”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhermes/, [ˈhe̞rme̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -ermes
• Syllabification^(key): Her‧mes

Hermes

1. Hermes (Greek god)

From Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês).

Hermes m

1. Hermes

Hermes m

1. (Greek mythology) Hermes

• Herma

From Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈher.meːs/, [ˈhɛrmeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈer.mes/, [ˈɛrmes]

Hermēs m sg (genitive Hermae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Hermes
2. a male given name from Ancient Greek

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

• Hermaeum

Hermēs m (genitive Hermae); first declension

1. a rectangular pillar or pedestal bearing a bust; a herm

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

Hermēs m (variously declined, genitive Hermae or Hermētis); first declension, third declension

1. Hermes Trismegistus

• The first declension paradigm applies to all senses. The third declension paradigm is an exception that comes from Medieval Latin and is principally used to decline the name of Hermes Trismegistus when there is a wish to congrue with established Medieval Latin derivations such as hermēticus; but note that the figure of Hermes Trismegistus dates back to Antiquity, and that the existence of this special grammatical treatment has no parallel in Greek.

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs) or third-declension noun.

• hermēticus

• “Hermes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Hermes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɛr.mɛs/
• Rhymes: -ɛrmɛs
• Syllabification: Her‧mes

Hermes m

1. (Greek mythology) Hermes

• Hermes in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês), itself of unknown meaning and origin.

Hermes m

1. (Greek mythology) Hermes (messenger of the gods)
2. a male given name

• Mercúrio

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɾmes/ [ˈeɾ.mes]
• Rhymes: -eɾmes
• Syllabification: Her‧mes

Hermes m

1. (Greek mythology) Hermes

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês).

Hermes c (genitive Hermes)

1. (Greek mythology) Hermes

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Afrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hefaistos, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Hermes

1. (Greek mythology) Hermes