μηδείς
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From μηδέ (mēdé, “and not”) + εἷς (heîs, “one”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛː.děːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me̝ˈdis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /miˈðis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /miˈðis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈðis/
Pronoun
[edit]μηδείς • (mēdeís)
- and not one
- (not elided)
- nobody, naught, good for naught
- (neuter, adverbial) not at all, by no means
Inflection
[edit]Number | Singular | |||||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||||||||
Nominative | μηδείς mēdeís |
μηδεμῐ́ᾰ mēdemía |
μηδέν mēdén | |||||||||||
Genitive | μηδενός mēdenós |
μηδεμῐᾶς mēdemiâs |
μηδενός mēdenós | |||||||||||
Dative | μηδενῐ́ mēdení |
μηδεμῐᾷ mēdemiâi |
μηδενῐ́ mēdení | |||||||||||
Accusative | μηδένᾰ mēdéna |
μηδεμῐ́ᾰν mēdemían |
μηδέν mēdén | |||||||||||
Vocative | — | — | — | |||||||||||
Notes: |
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Plural forms such as the masculine nominative plural μηδένες (mēdénes), Ionic μηδᾰμοί (mēdamoí), and accusative plural μηδένᾰς (mēdénas) occur rarely.
Synonyms
[edit]- οὐδείς (oudeís)
Descendants
[edit]- Greek: μηδέν (midén)
References
[edit]- “μηδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μηδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μηδείς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μηδείς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μηδείς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3367 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.