μύρμηξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *morwi-. Related to Old Armenian մրջիւն (mrǰiwn) and Latin formica and perhaps Sanskrit वल्मी (valmī).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mýr.mɛːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmyr.me̝ks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmyr.miks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmyr.miks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmir.miks/
Noun
μύρμηξ • (múrmēx) m (genitive μύρμηκος); third declension
- ant
- a beast of prey in India
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μύρμηξ ho múrmēx |
τὼ μύρμηκε tṑ múrmēke |
οἱ μύρμηκες hoi múrmēkes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μύρμηκος toû múrmēkos |
τοῖν μυρμήκοιν toîn murmḗkoin |
τῶν μυρμήκων tôn murmḗkōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μύρμηκῐ tôi múrmēki |
τοῖν μυρμήκοιν toîn murmḗkoin |
τοῖς μύρμηξῐ / μύρμηξῐν toîs múrmēxi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μύρμηκᾰ tòn múrmēka |
τὼ μύρμηκε tṑ múrmēke |
τοὺς μύρμηκᾰς toùs múrmēkas | ||||||||||
Vocative | μύρμηξ múrmēx |
μύρμηκε múrmēke |
μύρμηκες múrmēkes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “μύρμηξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μύρμηξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μύρμηξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μύρμηξ in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ant idem, page 32.
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- Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek paroxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek third-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension
- grc:Ants
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