μηνίσκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μείς (meís, “month; moon”) + -ῐ́σκος (-ískos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛː.nís.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me̝ˈnis.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /miˈnis.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /miˈnis.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈnis.kos/
Noun
μηνῐ́σκος • (mēnískos) m (genitive μηνῐ́σκου); second declension
- crescent
- head covering for statues
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ μηνῐ́σκος; τοῦ μηνῐ́σκου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μηνῐ́σκος ho mēnískos | τὼ μηνῐ́σκω tṑ mēnískō | οἱ μηνῐ́σκοι hoi mēnískoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μηνῐ́σκου toû mēnískou | τοῖν μηνῐ́σκοιν toîn mēnískoin | τῶν μηνῐ́σκων tôn mēnískōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μηνῐ́σκῳ tôi mēnískōi | τοῖν μηνῐ́σκοιν toîn mēnískoin | τοῖς μηνῐ́σκοις toîs mēnískois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μηνῐ́σκον tòn mēnískon | τὼ μηνῐ́σκω tṑ mēnískō | τοὺς μηνῐ́σκους toùs mēnískous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μηνῐ́σκε mēníske | μηνῐ́σκω mēnískō | μηνῐ́σκοι mēnískoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- English: meniscus
- French: ménisque m
- Greek: μηνίσκος m (minískos)
- Italian: menisco m
- Portuguese: menisco m
- Russian: мени́ск m (menísk)
- Spanish: menisco m
References
- “μηνίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μηνίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μηνίσκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μηνίσκος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften