Μαίων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly related to the Anatolian name Masa, itself related to Μυσία (Musía, “Mysia”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

Μαίων • (Maíōn) m (genitive Μαίονος); third declension

  1. an inhabitant of Maeonia or Lydia; one of the Maeones; a Maeonian

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Μαίων; τοῦ Μαίονος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ Μαίων
ho Maíōn		 τὼ Μαίονε
tṑ Maíone		 οἱ Μαίονες
hoi Maíones
Genitive τοῦ Μαίονος
toû Maíonos		 τοῖν Μαιόνοιν
toîn Maiónoin		 τῶν Μαιόνων
tôn Maiónōn
Dative τῷ Μαίονῐ
tôi Maíoni		 τοῖν Μαιόνοιν
toîn Maiónoin		 τοῖς Μαίοσῐ / Μαίοσῐν
toîs Maíosi(n)
Accusative τὸν Μαίονᾰ
tòn Maíona		 τὼ Μαίονε
tṑ Maíone		 τοὺς Μαίονᾰς
toùs Maíonas
Vocative Μαῖον
Maîon		 Μαίονε
Maíone		 Μαίονες
Maíones
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: Μαίων (Maíon)
  • Latin: Maeōn

References
  • “Μαίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
  • Μαίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire, p. 438
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