μίνθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like ὄνθος (ónthos, “dung of animals”), σπέλεθος (spélethos, “dung, ordure”) and σπύραθος (spúrathos, “droppings of goats and sheep”). According to Beekes, probably from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mín.tʰos/ → /ˈmin.θos/ → /ˈmin.θos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mín.tʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmin.tʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmin.θos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmin.θos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmin.θos/

Noun

μῐ́νθος • (mínthos) m (genitive μῐ́νθου); second declension

1. shit, especially of humans

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῐ́νθος; τοῦ μῐ́νθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῐ́νθος ho mínthos	τὼ μῐ́νθω tṑ mínthō	οἱ μῐ́νθοι hoi mínthoi
Genitive	τοῦ μῐ́νθου toû mínthou	τοῖν μῐ́νθοιν toîn mínthoin	τῶν μῐ́νθων tôn mínthōn
Dative	τῷ μῐ́νθῳ tôi mínthōi	τοῖν μῐ́νθοιν toîn mínthoin	τοῖς μῐ́νθοις toîs mínthois
Accusative	τὸν μῐ́νθον tòn mínthon	τὼ μῐ́νθω tṑ mínthō	τοὺς μῐ́νθους toùs mínthous
Vocative	μῐ́νθε mínthe	μῐ́νθω mínthō	μῐ́νθοι mínthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μῐνθόω (minthóō)

Further reading

• “μίνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μίνθος 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