μήδεα
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̌ː.de.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.dɛ.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðe.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðe.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðe.a/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *méh₁desh₂, from *med- (“to measure, give advice”), whence also μέδω (médō), μέδομαι (médomai). Cognates include Armenian միտ (mit).
Noun
μήδεᾰ • (mḗdea) n pl (genitive μηδέων); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | μηδέων mēdéōn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | μήδεσῐ / μήδεσῐν mḗdesi(n) | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Has been connected with etymology 1 (compare Old High German gimaht for a similar double meaning), Latin mentula, and with μαδάω (madáō) and Middle Irish mess. Could also be Pre-Greek.
Alternative forms
- μέζεᾰ (mézea)
Inflection
| Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | μηδέων mēdéōn | ||||||||||||
| Dative | μήδεσῐ / μήδεσῐν mḗdesi(n) | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Further reading
- μῆδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μῆδος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μῆδος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μήδεα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μῆδος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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