μειράκιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μεῖραξ (meîrax, “young lady, young woman, maiden”) + -ῐον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /meː.rá.ki.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /miˈra.ki.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /miˈra.ci.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /miˈra.ci.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈra.ci.on/
Noun
μειράκιον • (meirákion) n (genitive μειρᾰκίου); second declension
- lad, stripling, young man, youngster, teenager (range of approximately ages 12-16 or 14-20, depending on locational and temporal contexts)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ μειρᾰ́κῐον; τοῦ μειρᾰκῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μειρᾰ́κῐον tò meirákion | τὼ μειρᾰκῐ́ω tṑ meirakíō | τᾰ̀ μειρᾰ́κῐᾰ tà meirákia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μειρᾰκῐ́ου toû meirakíou | τοῖν μειρᾰκῐ́οιν toîn meirakíoin | τῶν μειρᾰκῐ́ων tôn meirakíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μειρᾰκῐ́ῳ tôi meirakíōi | τοῖν μειρᾰκῐ́οιν toîn meirakíoin | τοῖς μειρᾰκῐ́οις toîs meirakíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μειρᾰ́κῐον tò meirákion | τὼ μειρᾰκῐ́ω tṑ meirakíō | τᾰ̀ μειρᾰ́κῐᾰ tà meirákia | ||||||||||
Vocative | μειρᾰ́κῐον meirákion | μειρᾰκῐ́ω meirakíō | μειρᾰ́κῐᾰ meirákia | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “μειράκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μειράκιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette