ὕμνων (hymnon)

ὕμνων is an Ancient Greek form of ὑμνέω, meaning “sing, sing of, praise”. It is the present active participle nominative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of ὕμνος, “hymn, song of praise”.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Ion 500: ὕμνων, ὅτʼ ἀναλίοις

Plutarch, Pelopidas 34.1: ἐκείνων δὲ τῶν ταφῶν οὐ δοκοῦσιν ἕτεραι λαμπρότεραι γενέσθαι τοῖς τὸ λαμπρὸν οὐκ ἐν ἐλέφαντι καὶ χρυσῷ καὶ πορφύραις εἶναι νομίζουσιν, ὥσπερ Φίλιστος ὑμνῶν καὶ θαυμάζων τὴν Διονυσίου ταφήν, οἷον τραγῳδίας μεγάλης τῆς τυραννίδος ἐξόδιον θεατρικὸν γενομένην.

Aristophanes, Birds 905: κλῇσον ὦ Μοῦσα τεαῖς ἐν ὓμνων ἀοιδαῖς.

All forms of ὑμνέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.