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”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̌ː.deː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme̝.di.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ði.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ði.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ði.a/
Proper noun
Μήδειᾰ • (Mḗdeia) f (genitive Μηδείᾱς); first declension
Inflection
Descendants
- French: Médée
- Georgian: მედეა (medea)
- Greek: Μήδεια (Mídeia)
- Latin: Medea
- Russian: Меде́я (Medɛ́ja)
- Turkish: Midia
References
- “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
- ^ Room, Who's Who in Classical Mythology
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- Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ια
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the first declension
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns