Μήδεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Literally, “cunning”, from μήδεα (mḗdea, “cunning, counsels, device, planning”) +‎ -ιᾰ (-ia, feminine suffix), from μέδω (médō, “to rule over, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.deː.a/ → /ˈmi.ði.a/ → /ˈmi.ði.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.deː.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme̝.di.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ði.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ði.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ði.a/

Proper noun

Μήδειᾰ • (Mḗdeia) f (genitive Μηδείᾱς); first declension

1. Medea

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Μήδειᾰ; τῆς Μηδείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Μήδειᾰ hē Mḗdeia
Genitive	τῆς Μηδείᾱς tês Mēdeíās
Dative	τῇ Μηδείᾳ têi Mēdeíāi
Accusative	τὴν Μήδειᾰν tḕn Mḗdeian
Vocative	Μήδειᾰ Mḗdeia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• French: Médée
• Georgian: მედეა (medea)
• Greek: Μήδεια (Mídeia)
• Latin: Mēdēa
• Russian: Меде́я (Medɛ́ja)
• Turkish: Midia

Further reading

• “Μήδεια”, 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, page 1,016