μῆκος
See also: μήκος
Ancient Greek
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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛ̂ː.kos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme̝.kos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.kos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.kos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.kos/
Noun
μῆκος • (mêkos) n (genitive μήκους or μήκεος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μῆκος tò mêkos |
τὼ μήκει tṑ mḗkei |
τᾰ̀ μήκη tà mḗkē | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μήκους toû mḗkous |
τοῖν μηκοῖν toîn mēkoîn |
τῶν μηκῶν tôn mēkôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μήκει tôi mḗkei |
τοῖν μηκοῖν toîn mēkoîn |
τοῖς μήκεσῐ / μήκεσῐν toîs mḗkesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μῆκος tò mêkos |
τὼ μήκει tṑ mḗkei |
τᾰ̀ μήκη tà mḗkē | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῆκος mêkos |
μήκει mḗkei |
μήκη mḗkē | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ μῆκος tò mêkos |
τὼ μήκει / μήκεε tṑ mḗkei / mḗkee |
τᾰ̀ μήκεᾰ tà mḗkea | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μήκεος / μήκευς toû mḗkeos / mḗkeus |
τοῖν μηκέοιν toîn mēkéoin |
τῶν μηκέων tôn mēkéōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μήκει / μήκεῐ̈ tôi mḗkei / mḗkeï |
τοῖν μηκέοιν toîn mēkéoin |
τοῖσῐ / τοῖσῐν μήκεσῐ / μήκεσῐν toîsi(n) mḗkesi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ μῆκος tò mêkos |
τὼ μήκει / μήκεε tṑ mḗkei / mḗkee |
τᾰ̀ μήκεᾰ tà mḗkea | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μῆκος mêkos |
μήκει / μήκεε mḗkei / mḗkee |
μήκεᾰ mḗkea | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Related terms
- μακρός (makrós)
Descendants
- Greek: μήκος (míkos)
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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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
- μῆκος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
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