μείων
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- 𐀕𐀄𐀍 (me-u-jo), 𐀕𐀹𐀍 (me-wi-jo)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /měː.ɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.on/
Adjective
μείων • (meíōn) m, f (neuter μεῖον); third declension
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | μείων meíōn |
μεῖον meîon |
μείονε meíone |
μείονε meíone |
μείονες meíones |
μείονᾰ meíona | ||||||||
| Genitive | μείονος meíonos |
μείονος meíonos |
μειόνοιν meiónoin |
μειόνοιν meiónoin |
μειόνων meiónōn |
μειόνων meiónōn | ||||||||
| Dative | μείονῐ meíoni |
μείονῐ meíoni |
μειόνοιν meiónoin |
μειόνοιν meiónoin |
μείοσῐ(ν) meíosi(n) |
μείοσῐ(ν) meíosi(n) | ||||||||
| Accusative | μείονᾰ meíona |
μεῖον meîon |
μείονε meíone |
μείονε meíone |
μείονᾰς meíonas |
μείονᾰ meíona | ||||||||
| Vocative | μεῖον meîon |
μεῖον meîon |
μείονε meíone |
μείονε meíone |
μείονες meíones |
μείονᾰ meíona | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| μειόνως meiónōs |
μειονέστερος meionésteros |
μειονέστᾰτος meionéstatos | ||||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Alternative forms: | |||||||||||||
Derived terms
- μειόω (meióō)
Further reading
- μείων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μείων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μείων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μείων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μείων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- μείων 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.
- less idem, page 485.
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