Μαίων
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Possibly related to the Anatolian name Masa, itself related to Μυσία (Musía, “Mysia”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mǎi̯.ɔːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.on/
Noun edit
Μαίων • (Maíōn) m (genitive Μαίονος); third declension
Inflection edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | ὁ Μαίων ho Maíōn |
τὼ Μαίονε tṑ Maíone |
οἱ Μαίονες hoi Maíones | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Μαίονος toû Maíonos |
τοῖν Μαιόνοιν toîn Maiónoin |
τῶν Μαιόνων tôn Maiónōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Μαίονῐ tôi Maíoni |
τοῖν Μαιόνοιν toîn Maiónoin |
τοῖς Μαίοσῐ / Μαίοσῐν toîs Maíosi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Μαίονᾰ tòn Maíona |
τὼ Μαίονε tṑ Maíone |
τοὺς Μαίονᾰς toùs Maíonas | ||||||||||
Vocative | Μαῖον Maîon |
Μαίονε Maíone |
Μαίονες Maíones | ||||||||||
Notes: |
|
Derived terms edit
- Μαιονῐ́ᾱ (Maioníā)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “Μαίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
- Μαίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire, p. 438