μέδομαι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”). Compare Avestan 𐬬𐬍-𐬨𐬀𐬛 (vī-mad), Old Persian [script needed] (azdā), Old Armenian միտ (mit), Old Irish midiur, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 (mitaþs), Latin meditor, Modern German Maut.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.do.mai̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.do.mɛ/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðo.mɛ/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðo.me/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðo.me/
Conjugation
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | μέδομαι | μέδεαι | μέδεται | μέδεσθον | μέδεσθον | μεδόμε(σ)θᾰ | μέδεσθε | μέδονται | ||||
| subjunctive | μέδωμαι | μέδηαι | μέδηται | μέδησθον | μέδησθον | μεδώμεθᾰ | μέδησθε | μέδωνται | |||||
| optative | μεδοίμην | μέδοιο | μέδοιτο | μέδοισθον | μεδοίσθην | μεδοίμε(σ)θᾰ | μέδοισθε | μεδοίᾰτο | |||||
| imperative | μέδεο | μεδέσθω | μέδεσθον | μεδέσθων | μέδεσθε | μεδέσθων | |||||||
| middle/passive | |||||||||||||
| infinitive | μέδεσθαι | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | μεδόμενος | |||||||||||
| f | μεδομένη | ||||||||||||
| n | μεδόμενον | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | μεδόμην | μέδου | μέδετο | μέδεσθον | μεδέσθην | μεδόμε(σ)θᾰ | μέδεσθε | μέδοντο | ||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| passive | indicative | μεδήσομαι | μεδήσῃ | μεδήσεται | μεδήσεσθον | μεδήσεσθον | μεδησόμε(σ)θᾰ | μεδήσεσθε | μεδήσονται | ||||
| optative | μεδησοίμην | μεδήσοιο | μεδήσοιτο | μεδήσοισθον | μεδησοίσθην | μεδησοίμε(σ)θᾰ | μεδήσοισθε | μεδησοίᾰτο | |||||
| passive | |||||||||||||
| infinitive | μεδήσεσθαι | ||||||||||||
| participle | m | μεδησόμενος | |||||||||||
| f | μεδησομένη | ||||||||||||
| n | μεδησόμενον | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
Further reading
- “μέδομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέδομαι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μέδομαι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέδομαι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μέδομαι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
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