μίμησις
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mǐː.mɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.me̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mi.sis/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μῑ́μησῐς hē mī́mēsis |
τὼ μῑμήσει tṑ mīmḗsei |
αἱ μῑμήσεις hai mīmḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μῑμήσεως tês mīmḗseōs |
τοῖν μῑμησέοιν toîn mīmēséoin |
τῶν μῑμήσεων tôn mīmḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μῑμήσει têi mīmḗsei |
τοῖν μῑμησέοιν toîn mīmēséoin |
ταῖς μῑμήσεσῐ / μῑμήσεσῐν taîs mīmḗsesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μῑ́μησῐν tḕn mī́mēsin |
τὼ μῑμήσει tṑ mīmḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς μῑμήσεις tā̀s mīmḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῑ́μησῐ mī́mēsi |
μῑμήσει mīmḗsei |
μῑμήσεις mīmḗseis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀπομῑ́μησις (apomī́mēsis)
- μῑμητικός (mīmētikós)
Descendants
- → Late Latin: mīmesis (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “μίμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μίμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μίμησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- imitation idem, page 417.
- mimicry idem, page 529.
- reproduction idem, page 699.
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