Μήδεια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Literally "cunning," from μήδεα (mḗdea, “cunning, counsels, device, planning”) +‎ -ιᾰ (-ia, feminine suffix), from μέδω (médō, “to rule over, protect”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.deː.a/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.di.a/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ði.a/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ði.a/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ði.a/

Proper noun

Μήδειᾰ • (Mḗdeia) f (genitive Μηδείᾱς); first declension

Medea

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Μήδειᾰ; τῆς Μηδείᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Μήδειᾰ hē Mḗdeia
Genitive	τῆς Μηδείᾱς tês Mēdeíās
Dative	τῇ Μηδείᾳ têi Mēdeíāi
Accusative	τὴν Μήδειᾰν tḕn Mḗdeian
Vocative	Μήδειᾰ Mḗdeia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

French: Médée
Georgian: მედეა (medea)
Greek: Μήδεια (Mídeia)
Latin: Medea
Russian: Меде́я (Medɛ́ja)
Turkish: Midia

References

Μήδεια 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 1,016

↑ Room, Who's Who in Classical Mythology

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[1] Room, Who's Who in Classical Mythology