μίτος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to bind”), like μίτρα (mítra).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mí.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tos/
Noun
μίτος • (mítos) m (genitive μίτου); second declension
- thread of the warp
- thread of destiny
- string of a lyre
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μῐ́τος; τοῦ μῐ́του (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μῐ́τος ho mítos | τὼ μῐ́τω tṑ mítō | οἱ μῐ́τοι hoi mítoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μῐ́του toû mítou | τοῖν μῐ́τοιν toîn mítoin | τῶν μῐ́των tôn mítōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μῐ́τῳ tôi mítōi | τοῖν μῐ́τοιν toîn mítoin | τοῖς μῐ́τοις toîs mítois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μῐ́τον tòn míton | τὼ μῐ́τω tṑ mítō | τοὺς μῐ́τους toùs mítous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῐ́τε míte | μῐ́τω mítō | μῐ́τοι mítoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λεπτόμιτος (leptómitos)
- πολύμιτος (polúmitos)
- μιτώδης (mitṓdēs)
- μίτινοι (mítinoi)
- μιτηρός (mitērós)
- μιτόομαι (mitóomai)
Further reading
- μίτος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μίτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette