μηκέτι

μηκέτι

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μηκέτ’ (mēkét’) – apocopic

Etymology

From μή (mḗ, “not”) + ἔτι (éti, “yet”), with κ (k) by analogy with οὐκέτι (oukéti).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛː.ké.ti/ → /miˈce.ti/ → /miˈce.ti/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛː.ké.ti/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me̝ˈke.ti/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈce.ti/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈce.ti/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈce.ti/

Adverb

μηκέτῐ • (mēkéti)

1. no more, no longer, no further
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 13.292
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 174
   • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.5
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 805

Further reading

• “μηκέτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μηκέτι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μηκέτι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μηκέτι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μηκέτι in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μηκέτι”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3371 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • long idem, page 498.
  • more idem, page 541.
  • no idem, page 559.