μήδεα
Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̌ː.de.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme̝.de.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðe.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðe.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðe.a/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Hellenic *mḗdeha, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁desh₂, from *med- (“to measure, give advice”), whence also μέδω (médō), μέδομαι (médomai). Cognates include Armenian միտ (mit).
Noun
μήδεᾰ • (mḗdea) n pl (genitive μηδέων); third declension
- (poetic, plural only) counsel, plan, art, prudence, cunning
Inflection
Third declension of μήδεᾰ; μηδέων (Epic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
Genitive | μηδέων mēdéōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | μήδεσῐ / μήδεσῐν mḗdesi(n) | ||||||||||||
Accusative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
Vocative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Ἀγαμήδης (Agamḗdēs)
- Ἀριστομήδης (Aristomḗdēs)
- Ἀρχιμήδης (Arkhimḗdēs)
- Γανυμήδης (Ganumḗdēs)
- Διομήδης (Diomḗdēs)
- Ἑκαμήδη (Hekamḗdē)
- Θρασυμήδης (Thrasumḗdēs)
- Κλεομήδης (Kleomḗdēs)
- Λυκομήδης (Lukomḗdēs)
- Μήδειᾰ (Mḗdeia)
- -μήδης (-mḗdēs)
- μήδομαι (mḗdomai)
- Νικομήδης (Nikomḗdēs)
- Παλαμήδης (Palamḗdēs)
- Περιμήδη (Perimḗdē)
Etymology 2
Uncertain. Has been connected with etymology 1 (compare Old High German gimaht for a similar double meaning), Latin mentula, and with μαδάω (madáō) and Middle Irish mess. Could also be Pre-Greek.
Alternative forms
- μέζεᾰ (mézea)
Noun
μήδεᾰ • (mḗdea) n pl (genitive μηδέων); third declension
- (Epic, plural only) male genitals
Inflection
Third declension of μήδεᾰ; μηδέων (Epic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
Genitive | μηδέων mēdéōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | μήδεσῐ / μήδεσῐν mḗdesi(n) | ||||||||||||
Accusative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
Vocative | μήδεᾰ mḗdea | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “μῆδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μῆδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μῆδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μήδεα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μῆδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN