μῆκος

Alternative forms

• μᾶκος (mâkos) – Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *mā́kos, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂ḱos. Cognates include Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬵‎ (masah), Latin maciēs, and Hittite [script needed] (mak-l-ant-).

Pronunciation

Noun

μῆκος • (mêkos) n (genitive μήκους or μήκεος); third declension

1. length (spatial measurement)
   1. height
   2. any linear measurement
2. length (of time)
3. greatness, magnitude
4. longitude
5. (prosody) length
6. first line of a phalanx

Further reading

• μῆκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μῆκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μῆκος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μῆκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μῆκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3372 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • area idem, page 39.
  • extent idem, page 296.
  • length idem, page 485.
  • stretch idem, page 825.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill