μείων
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”) + -ίων (-íōn, “comparative adjective suffix”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /měː.ɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.on/
Adjective
[edit]μείων • (meíōn) m or f (neuter μεῖον); third declension
Declension
[edit]Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
Nominative | μείων meíōn |
μεῖον meîon |
μείονε meíone |
μείονε meíone |
μείονες / μείους meíones / meíous |
μείονᾰ / μείω meíonă / meíō | ||||||||
Genitive | μείονος meíonos |
μείονος meíonos |
μειόνοιν meiónoin |
μειόνοιν meiónoin |
μειόνων meiónōn |
μειόνων meiónōn | ||||||||
Dative | μείονῐ meíonĭ |
μείονῐ meíonĭ |
μειόνοιν meiónoin |
μειόνοιν meiónoin |
μείοσῐ / μείοσῐν / μειόνοις meíosĭ(n) / meiónois |
μείοσῐ / μείοσῐν meíosĭ(n) | ||||||||
Accusative | μείονᾰ / μείω meíonă / meíō |
μεῖον meîon |
μείονε meíone |
μείονε meíone |
μείονᾰς / μείους meíonăs / meíous |
μείονᾰ / μείω meíonă / meíō | ||||||||
Vocative | μεῖον meîon |
μεῖον meîon |
μείονε meíone |
μείονε meíone |
μείονες / μείους meíones / meíous |
μείονᾰ / μείω meíonă / meíō | ||||||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
μεῖον meîon |
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Derived terms
[edit]- μειόω (meióō)
References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μείων”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 923
Further reading
[edit]- “μείων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μείων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μείων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μείων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μείων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μείων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- less idem, page 485.
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mey- (small)
- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ίων (comparative)
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek non-lemma forms
- Ancient Greek comparative adjectives
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms