μέδιμνος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ϝεδιμνος (wedimnos)

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”) and cognate with Ancient Greek μέδομαι (médomai, “to provide for”), Latin modus (“measure; manner”) and Proto-Germanic *mētō (“measure”). According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek because of the presence of the cluster "-μν-".

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mé.dim.nos/ → /ˈme.ðim.nos/ → /ˈme.ðim.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mé.dim.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme.dim.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ðim.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ðim.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ðim.nos/

Noun

μέδιμνος • (médimnos) m (genitive μεδίμνου); second declension

1. corn measure, bushel
2. (in Magna Graecia) pipe of a fountain

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μέδιμνος; τοῦ μεδίμνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μέδιμνος ho médimnos	τὼ μεδίμνω tṑ medímnō	οἱ μέδιμνοι hoi médimnoi
Genitive	τοῦ μεδίμνου toû medímnou	τοῖν μεδίμνοιν toîn medímnoin	τῶν μεδίμνων tôn medímnōn
Dative	τῷ μεδίμνῳ tôi medímnōi	τοῖν μεδίμνοιν toîn medímnoin	τοῖς μεδίμνοις toîs medímnois
Accusative	τὸν μέδιμνον tòn médimnon	τὼ μεδίμνω tṑ medímnō	τοὺς μεδίμνους toùs medímnous
Vocative	μέδιμνε médimne	μεδίμνω medímnō	μέδιμνοι médimnoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἡμιμέδιμνον (hēmimédimnon)
• μεδιμναῖος (medimnaîos)

 

Descendants

• → English: medimnus
• → Gandhari: 𐨨𐨁𐨫𐨁𐨨 (milima)
• → Ottoman Turkish: مادمنون (mademnun)

Further reading

• “μέδιμνος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μέδιμνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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, →ISBN