μινύθω
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *mi-néw-, from the root *mey- (“to decrease, diminish; small, little”). Compare Latin minuō, Sanskrit मीनाति (mīnā́ti, “to lessen, diminish, damage”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mi.ný.tʰɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /miˈny.tʰo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /miˈny.θo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /miˈny.θo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈni.θo/
Verb
[edit]μῐνύθω • (minúthō)
Conjugation
[edit] Present: μῐνῠ́θω, μῐνῠ́θομαι
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | μῐνῠ́θεσκον | μῐνῠ́θεσκες | μῐνῠ́θεσκε(ν) | μῐνῠθέσκετον | μῐνῠθεσκέτην | μῐνῠθέσκομεν | μῐνῠθέσκετε | μῐνῠ́θεσκον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | μῐνῠθεσκόμην | μῐνῠθέσκου | μῐνῠθέσκετο | μῐνῠθέσκεσθον | μῐνῠθεσκέσθην | μῐνῠθεσκόμεθᾰ | μῐνῠθέσκεσθε | μῐνῠθέσκοντο | ||||
Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Further reading
[edit]- “μινύθω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μινύθω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μινύθω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μινύθω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press