μέδιμνος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ϝεδιμνος (wedimnos)
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”) and cognate with Ancient Greek μέδομαι (médomai, “to provide for”), Latin modus (“measure; manner”) and Proto-Germanic *mētō (“measure”). According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek because of the presence of the cluster "-μν-".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.dim.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.dim.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðim.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðim.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðim.nos/
Noun
μέδιμνος • (médimnos) m (genitive μεδίμνου); second declension
- corn measure, bushel
- (in Magna Graecia) pipe of a fountain
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μέδιμνος ho médimnos |
τὼ μεδίμνω tṑ medímnō |
οἱ μέδιμνοι hoi médimnoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μεδίμνου toû medímnou |
τοῖν μεδίμνοιν toîn medímnoin |
τῶν μεδίμνων tôn medímnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μεδίμνῳ tôi medímnōi |
τοῖν μεδίμνοιν toîn medímnoin |
τοῖς μεδίμνοις toîs medímnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μέδιμνον tòn médimnon |
τὼ μεδίμνω tṑ medímnō |
τοὺς μεδίμνους toùs medímnous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μέδιμνε médimne |
μεδίμνω medímnō |
μέδιμνοι médimnoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἡμιμέδιμνον (hēmimédimnon)
- μεδιμναῖος (medimnaîos)
Further reading
- “μέδιμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μέδιμνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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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