μήν
See also: μην
Ancient Greek
Etymology 1
Formed by analogy with other nouns in -ην-.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /men/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /min/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /min/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /min/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μήν ho mḗn |
τὼ μῆνε tṑ mêne |
οἱ μῆνες hoi mênes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μηνός toû mēnós |
τοῖν μηνοῖν toîn mēnoîn |
τῶν μηνῶν tôn mēnôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μηνῐ́ tôi mēní |
τοῖν μηνοῖν toîn mēnoîn |
τοῖς μησῐ́ / μησῐ́ν toîs mēsí(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μῆνᾰ tòn mêna |
τὼ μῆνε tṑ mêne |
τοὺς μῆνᾰς toùs mênas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μήν mḗn |
μῆνε mêne |
μῆνες mênes | ||||||||||
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Etymology 2
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Particle
μήν • (mḗn) (discourse particle)
- used to strengthen statements: surely, truly, definitely
- (after other particles)
- (ἦ μήν) absolutely
- (καὶ μήν) used to introduce something new or convey affirmation
- (αλλὰ μήν) yet truly, on the other hand
- (οὐ μήν) certainly not
- (μήτε μήν) not even
- (after interrogatives, τί μήν) of course, naturally
- (after a negative) applies an adversative force
References
- μήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μήν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μήν in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μήν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- μήν in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3376 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- μήν in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- month idem, page 539.
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