μεδέων
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μέδω (médō, “to protect, rule over”) + -ων (-ōn).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.dé.ɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈde.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈðe.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈðe.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈðe.on/
Noun
μεδέων • (medéōn) m (genitive μεδέοντος); third declension
- guardian
Declension
Third declension of ὁ μεδέων; τοῦ μεδέοντος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μεδέων ho medéōn | τὼ μεδέοντε tṑ medéonte | οἱ μεδέοντες hoi medéontes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μεδέοντος toû medéontos | τοῖν μεδεόντοιν toîn medeóntoin | τῶν μεδεόντων tôn medeóntōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μεδέοντῐ tôi medéonti | τοῖν μεδεόντοιν toîn medeóntoin | τοῖς μεδέουσῐ / μεδέουσῐν toîs medéousi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μεδέοντᾰ tòn medéonta | τὼ μεδέοντε tṑ medéonte | τοὺς μεδέοντᾰς toùs medéontas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μεδέον medéon | μεδέοντε medéonte | μεδέοντες medéontes | ||||||||||
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Coordinate terms
- μεδέουσα f (medéousa)
Related terms
- μέδων (médōn)
Further reading
- “μεδέων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μεδέων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μεδέων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μεδέων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μεδέων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter