μένος

See also: -μενος

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *ménos, from Proto-Indo-European *ménos (“mind”), from *men- (“to think”). Cognates include Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬋‎ (manō) and Sanskrit मनस् (mánas).^[1]

μένος • (ménos) n (genitive μένεος or μένους); third declension

Third declension of τὸ μένος; τοῦ μένεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μένος tò ménos	τὼ μένεε tṑ ménee	τᾰ̀ μένεᾰ tà ménea
Genitive	τοῦ μένεος toû méneos	τοῖν μενέοιν toîn menéoin	τῶν μενέων tôn menéōn
Dative	τῷ μένεῐ̈ tôi méneï	τοῖν μενέοιν toîn menéoin	τοῖς μένεσῐ(ν) toîs ménesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ μένος tò ménos	τὼ μένεε tṑ ménee	τᾰ̀ μένεᾰ tà ménea
Vocative	μένος ménos	μένεε ménee	μένεᾰ ménea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

μένος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μένος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μένος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
μένος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
μένος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
μένος 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.
- anger idem, page 29.
- force idem, page 335.
- indignation idem, page 433.
- ire idem, page 459.
- might idem, page 528.
- passion idem, page 597.
- power idem, page 630.
- rage idem, page 668.
- strength idem, page 824.

↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μένος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, pages 930-931

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