μαιευτική
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ellipsis of μαιευτικὴ τέχνη (maieutikḕ tékhnē), from μαιεύομαι (maieúomai, “to serve as a midwife”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mai̯.eu̯.ti.kɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mɛ.ew.tiˈke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mɛ.eɸ.tiˈci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /me.ef.tiˈci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /me.ef.tiˈci/
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ μαιευτική hē maieutikḗ |
τὼ μαιευτικᾱ́ tṑ maieutikā́ |
αἱ μαιευτικαί hai maieutikaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς μαιευτικῆς tês maieutikês |
τοῖν μαιευτικαῖν toîn maieutikaîn |
τῶν μαιευτικῶν tôn maieutikôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ μαιευτικῇ têi maieutikêi |
τοῖν μαιευτικαῖν toîn maieutikaîn |
ταῖς μαιευτικαῖς taîs maieutikaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν μαιευτικήν tḕn maieutikḗn |
τὼ μαιευτικᾱ́ tṑ maieutikā́ |
τᾱ̀ς μαιευτικᾱ́ς tā̀s maieutikā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μαιευτική maieutikḗ |
μαιευτικᾱ́ maieutikā́ |
μαιευτικαί maieutikaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → French: maïeutique (learned)
Further reading
- “μαιευτική”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μαιευτική in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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