μῆτις
Appearance
See also: μήτις
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Hellenic *mḗtis, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis (“measurement”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”).
Cognate with Old English mǣþ. Apparently an Aeolic or Doric form, as the Attic-Ionic form would have been *μῆσις (*mêsis).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̂ː.tis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme̝.tis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.tis/
Noun
[edit]μῆτῐς • (mêtis) f (genitive μήτῐος or μήτῐδος); third declension (poetic)
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | μῆτῐς mêtis |
μήτῐε mḗtie |
μήτῐες / μήτηες mḗties / mḗtēes | ||||||||||
Genitive | μήτῐος / μήτηος mḗtios / mḗtēos |
μητῐ́οιῐν mētíoiin |
μητῐ́ων mētíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | μήτῐῐ / μήτῑ / μήτηῐ̈ / μήτει mḗtii / mḗtī / mḗtēï / mḗtei |
μητῐ́οιῐν mētíoiin |
μητῐ́εσσῐ / μητῐ́εσσῐν / μήτεσῐ / μήτεσῐν / μήτῐσῐ / μήτῐσῐν mētíessi(n) / mḗtesi(n) / mḗtisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | μῆτῐν mêtin |
μήτῐε mḗtie |
μήτῐᾰς / μήτηᾰς / μήτῑς mḗtias / mḗtēas / mḗtīs | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῆτῐ mêti |
μήτῐε mḗtie |
μήτῐες / μήτηες mḗties / mḗtēes | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | μῆτῐς mêtis |
μήτῐδε mḗtide |
μήτῐδες mḗtides | ||||||||||
Genitive | μήτῐδος mḗtidos |
μητῐ́δοιῐν mētídoiin |
μητῐ́δων mētídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | μήτῐδῐ mḗtidi |
μητῐ́δοιῐν mētídoiin |
μήτῐσῐ / μήτῐσῐν / μητῐ́δεσσῐ / μητῐ́δεσσῐν / μητῐ́δεσῐ / μητῐ́δεσῐν mḗtisi(n) / mētídessi(n) / mētídesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | μήτῐδᾰ mḗtida |
μήτῐδε mḗtide |
μήτῐδᾰς mḗtidas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῆτῐς mêtis |
μήτῐδε mḗtide |
μήτῐδες mḗtides | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Derived terms
[edit]- ἀγκυλομήτης (ankulomḗtēs)
- μητίετα (mētíeta)
- Μῆτις (Mêtis)
- ποικιλομήτης (poikilomḗtēs)
- πολύμητις (polúmētis)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: metis²
Further reading
[edit]- μῆτις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μῆτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₁-
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek properispomenon terms
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension
- Ancient Greek poetic terms