Μειδίας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /meː.dí.aːs/ → /miˈði.as/ → /miˈði.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /meː.dí.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /miˈdi.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈði.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈði.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈði.as/

Proper noun

Μειδῐ́ᾱς • (Meidíās) m (genitive Μειδῐ́ου); first declension

1. Meidias
   • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 1

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Μειδῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ Μειδῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Μειδῐ́ᾱς ho Meidíās
Genitive	τοῦ Μειδῐ́ου toû Meidíou
Dative	τῷ Μειδῐ́ᾳ tôi Meidíāi
Accusative	τὸν Μειδῐ́ᾱν tòn Meidíān
Vocative	Μειδῐ́ᾱ Meidíā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Μειδίας (Meidías)
• Latin: Midias

References

• “Μειδίας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017