μύνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. The former connection with ἀμύνω (amúnō, “to defend”) is impossible because the prothetic vowel developed from a laryngeal, provided that the latter word is Indo-European.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /my̌ː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmy.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ni/
Noun
μῡ́νη • (mū́nē) f (genitive μῡ́νης); first declension
- excuse, pretence, pretext
Inflection
First declension of ἡ μῡ́νη; τῆς μῡ́νης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ μῡ́νη hē mū́nē | τὼ μῡ́νᾱ tṑ mū́nā | αἱ μῦναι hai mûnai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς μῡ́νης tês mū́nēs | τοῖν μῡ́ναιν toîn mū́nain | τῶν μῡνῶν tôn mūnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ μῡ́νῃ têi mū́nēi | τοῖν μῡ́ναιν toîn mū́nain | ταῖς μῡ́ναις taîs mū́nais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν μῡ́νην tḕn mū́nēn | τὼ μῡ́νᾱ tṑ mū́nā | τᾱ̀ς μῡ́νᾱς tā̀s mū́nās | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῡ́νη mū́nē | μῡ́νᾱ mū́nā | μῦναι mûnai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- μῡνάομαι (mūnáomai)
References
- “μύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μύνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μύνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μύνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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, →ISBN