Μεθύδριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μετᾰ- (meta-, “between”) + ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ῐον (-ion), i.e. "between the waters", so called because of its location at the divide between Peloponessian watersheds.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.tʰý.dri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈtʰy.dri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈθy.ðri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈθy.ðri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈθi.ðri.on/
Proper noun
Μεθῠ́δρῐον • (Methúdrion) n (genitive Μεθῠδρῐ́ου); second declension
- Methydrium, a town in Arcadia
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ Μεθῠ́δρῐον; τοῦ Μεθῠδρῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ Μεθῠ́δρῐον tò Methúdrion | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Μεθῠδρῐ́ου toû Methudríou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Μεθῠδρῐ́ῳ tôi Methudríōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ Μεθῠ́δρῐον tò Methúdrion | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Μεθῠ́δρῐον Methúdrion | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Μεθῠδρῐεύς (Methudrieús)
Descendants
- Greek: Μεθύδριο (Methýdrio)
- Latin: Methydrium
References
- “Μεθύδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017