Μέδουσα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine participle of μέδω (médō, “rule, protect”), i.e. "she who rules/protects".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.doː.sa/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.du.sa/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðu.sa/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðu.sa/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðu.sa/
Proper noun
Μέδουσᾰ • (Médousa) f (genitive Μεδούσης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Μέδουσᾰ hē Médousa | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Μεδούσης tês Medoúsēs | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Μεδούσῃ têi Medoúsēi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Μέδουσᾰν tḕn Médousan | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Μέδουσᾰ Médousa | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- Latin: Medusa
References
- Μέδουσα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Μέδουσα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Μέδουσα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Μέδουσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2018)
- Μέδουσα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011
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