Μεθύδριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μετᾰ- (meta-, “between”) +‎ ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion), i.e. "between the waters", so called because of its location at the divide between Peloponessian watersheds.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.tʰý.dri.on/ → /meˈθy.ðri.on/ → /meˈθi.ðri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.tʰý.dri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /meˈtʰy.dri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /meˈθy.ðri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /meˈθy.ðri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /meˈθi.ðri.on/

Proper noun

Μεθῠ́δρῐον • (Methúdrion) n (genitive Μεθῠδρῐ́ου); second declension

1. Methydrium, a town in Arcadia

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ Μεθῠ́δρῐον; τοῦ Μεθῠδρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ Μεθῠ́δρῐον tò Methúdrion
Genitive	τοῦ Μεθῠδρῐ́ου toû Methudríou
Dative	τῷ Μεθῠδρῐ́ῳ tôi Methudríōi
Accusative	τὸ Μεθῠ́δρῐον tò Methúdrion
Vocative	Μεθῠ́δρῐον Methúdrion
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Μεθῠδρῐεύς (Methudrieús)

Descendants

• Greek: Μεθύδριο (Methýdrio)
• Latin: Methydrium

References

• “Μεθύδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017