μῆνιγξ
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̂ː.niŋks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.niŋks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.niŋks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.niŋks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.niŋks/
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μῆνῐγξ hē mêninx |
τὼ μήνῐγγε tṑ mḗninge |
αἱ μήνῐγγες hai mḗninges | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μήνῐγγος tês mḗningos |
τοῖν μηνῐ́γγοιν toîn mēníngoin |
τῶν μηνῐ́γγων tôn mēníngōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μήνῐγγῐ têi mḗningi |
τοῖν μηνῐ́γγοιν toîn mēníngoin |
ταῖς μήνῐγξῐ / μήνῐγξῐν taîs mḗninxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μήνῐγγᾰ tḕn mḗninga |
τὼ μήνῐγγε tṑ mḗninge |
τᾱ̀ς μήνῐγγᾰς tā̀s mḗningas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῆνῐγξ mêninx |
μήνῐγγε mḗninge |
μήνῐγγες mḗninges | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: meninx, meningeal, meningitis, meningocele, meningococcus
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μῆνιγξ, -ιγγος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 945-946
Further reading
- μῆνιγξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μῆνιγξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μῆνιγξ 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
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