μέθη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μέθυ (méthu, “wine”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.tʰɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.tʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.θi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.θi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.θi/
Noun
μέθη • (méthē) f (genitive μέθης); third declension
- strong drink; heavy drinking
- drunkenness
- (figuratively) intoxication
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μέθη hē méthē |
τὼ μέθᾱ tṑ méthā |
αἱ μέθαι hai méthai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μέθης tês méthēs |
τοῖν μέθαιν toîn méthain |
τῶν μεθῶν tôn methôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μέθῃ têi méthēi |
τοῖν μέθαιν toîn méthain |
ταῖς μέθαις taîs méthais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μέθην tḕn méthēn |
τὼ μέθᾱ tṑ méthā |
τᾱ̀ς μέθᾱς tā̀s méthās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μέθη méthē |
μέθᾱ méthā |
μέθαι méthai | ||||||||||
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References
- “μέθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Franco Montanari et al. (2015) Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder, editors, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 1295
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- drunkenness idem, page 255.
- insobriety idem, page 445.
- intemperance idem, page 448.
- intoxication idem, page 454.
- sottishness idem, page 796.
- tipsiness idem, page 877.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”).
Declension
Related terms
- see: μεθώ (methó, “to get drunk”)
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