Μεσορί

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Μεσορή (Mesorḗ)

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian mswt-rꜥ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /me.so.rí/ → /me.soˈri/ → /me.soˈri/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /me.so.rí/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me.soˈri/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /me.soˈri/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /me.soˈri/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /me.soˈri/

Proper noun

Μεσορί • (Mesorí) n (indeclinable)

1. Mesore, the twelfth month of the Ancient Egyptian calendar, corresponding roughly to August
   • 343 CE, Inscriptions métriques de l'Égypte gréco-romaine 149, (The date in the quote corresponds to: august/september Xth, 343 CE):

     ὡς δ’ εἶδον, θυμός μευ ἀγάσσα-/το καὶ τάδ’ ἔγραψα / ἐξ Ἐμίσης Κρονίδης /(...) /ἔτους Διοκλητιανοῦ /νθʹ Με[σορή(?) —ʹ], ἰνδ(ικτίονος) ιηʹ

     hōs d’ eîdon, thumós meu agássa-/to kaì tád’ égrapsa / ex Emísēs Kronídēs /(...) /étous Dioklētianoû /nthʹ Me[sorḗ(?) —ʹ], ind(iktíonos) iēʹ

     "When I saw (it), my soul was ravished and I wrote these things down." / - Cronides, from Emesa / (...) / in the 59th year of Diocletian /on the [Xth] of Mesore, in the 18th indiction

Descendants

• → English: Mesore

References

• Μεσορί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette