μέντοι
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μέν (mén) + τοι (toi).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mén.toi̯/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmen.ty/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmen.ty/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmen.ty/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmen.di/
Particle
μέντοι • (méntoi)
- (with a conjunctive force) yet, however, nevertheless
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 320
- 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1054
- 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 413
- of course
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 65D
- Suda, ε 206
- (as an adverb in strong protestations)
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 49
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedo 65D
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 309A
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 229B
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 339B
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 236D
- 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 787
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 171
- 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Alexander the False Prophet 44
- 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 1100
- 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 661
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.4.8
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 158E
- 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 130
- (μέντοι γε)
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.5.24
- 412 BCE – 323 BCE, Diogenes of Sinope, Apoll. 5
- 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 938
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 778
- 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1292
- 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Hex. 600
- 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 61
- (καὶ μέντοι καί)
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 331D
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.6.15
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 1.8.20
- 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 339C
- 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 143A
- (ἀλλὰ μέντοι) but as a matter of fact, but really
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.6.16
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 331E
References
- “μέντοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέντοι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μέντοι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέντοι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3305 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- however idem, page 408.
- nevertheless idem, page 556.
- notwithstanding idem, page 562.
- yet idem, page 996.