μεῖδος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh”), the same root of Proto-Germanic *smīlijaną (“to smile”) and Latin mīrus (“wonderful”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mêː.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.dos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðos/
Noun
μεῖδος • (meîdos)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: γέλως (gélōs, “laughter”).
References
- μεῖδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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
- Hesychius' Lexicon: μ