μέθυ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *métʰu (“intoxicating drink; mead”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; mead”). Cognates include Sanskrit मधु (mádhu, “honey”), Lithuanian medùs, Old Church Slavonic медъ (medŭ, “honey”), and Old English medu (English mead).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mé.tʰy/ → /ˈme.θy/ → /ˈme.θi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mé.tʰy/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.tʰy/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.θy/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.θy/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.θi/

Noun

μέθῠ • (méthu) n (genitive μέθῠος); third declension

1. (Epic) wine

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ μέθῠ; τοῦ μέθῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	τὸ μέθῠ tò méthu
Genitive	τοῦ μέθῠος toû méthuos
Dative	τῷ μέθῠῐ̈ tôi méthuï
Accusative	τὸ μέθῠ tò méthu
Vocative	μέθῠ méthu
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• οἶνος (oînos)

Derived terms

• ἀμέθυστος (améthustos)

Descendants

• Greek: μέθη (méthi)

References

• “μέθυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μέθυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μέθυ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μέθυ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μέθυ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ale idem, page 22.
  • wine idem, page 981.