Medea

English

Medea fleeing Corinth

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μήδεια (Mḗdeia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈdiːə/, /məˈdiːə/

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• Rhymes: -iːə

Proper noun

Medea

1. (Greek mythology) An enchantress who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece.

Derived terms

• Medea hypothesis
• Medean

Translations

enchantress in Greek mythology

• Arabic: مِيدِيَا f (mīdiyā)
• Catalan: Medea (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Simplified: 美狄亞 / 美狄亚 (Měidíyà)

  Traditional: 美狄亚 (Měidíyà)

  Wu: 美狄亚

• Czech: Médea f, Médeia f
• Dutch: Medea f
• Estonian: Medeia f
• French: Médée (fr) f
• Georgian: მედეა (medea)
• German: Medea (de) f
• Greek: Μήδεια (el) f (Mídeia)

  Ancient Greek: Μήδεια f (Mḗdeia)

• Hebrew: מדיאה
• Indonesian: Medeia
• Irish: Méidé f
• Italian: Medea (it) f
• Japanese: メーデイア (Mēdeia)
• Korean: 메데이아 (Medeia)
• Latin: Mēdēa f
• Latvian: Mēdeja
• Lithuanian: Medėja
• Malayalam: മീഡിയ (mīḍiya)
• Occitan: Medèa f
• Polish: Medea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Medeia (pt) f
• Romanian: Medeea f
• Russian: Меде́я (ru) f (Medéja)
• Serbo-Croatian: Medeja (sh) f
• Sicilian: Midìa f
• Spanish: Medea f
• Turkish: Midia
• Ukrainian: Меде́я f (Medéja)
• Vietnamese: Medea

Anagrams

• Meade, adeem, edema, meade

Latin

Alternative forms

• Mēdīa

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μήδεια (Mḗdeia).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [meːˈdeː.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [meˈdɛː.a]

Proper noun

Mēdēa f sg (genitive Mēdēae); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Medea

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Mēdēa
genitive	Mēdēae
dative	Mēdēae
accusative	Mēdēam
ablative	Mēdēā
vocative	Mēdēa

Old Latin genitive: Medeai

Related terms

• Mēdēis f (“Medean, magical”)

References

• “Mēdēa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Mēdēa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.