μήνη

See also: Μήνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From, or cognate with, μήν (mḗn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.nɛː/ → /ˈmi.ni/ → /ˈmi.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme̝.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ni/

Noun

μήνη • (mḗnē) f (genitive μήνης); first declension

1. moon

Declension

First declension of ἡ μήνη; τῆς μήνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μήνη hē mḗnē	τὼ μήνᾱ tṑ mḗnā	αἱ μῆναι hai mênai
Genitive	τῆς μήνης tês mḗnēs	τοῖν μήναιν toîn mḗnain	τῶν μηνῶν tôn mēnôn
Dative	τῇ μήνῃ têi mḗnēi	τοῖν μήναιν toîn mḗnain	ταῖς μήναις taîs mḗnais
Accusative	τὴν μήνην tḕn mḗnēn	τὼ μήνᾱ tṑ mḗnā	τᾱ̀ς μήνᾱς tā̀s mḗnās
Vocative	μήνη mḗnē	μήνᾱ mḗnā	μῆναι mênai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Ἀλκμήνη (Alkmḗnē)
• μηνᾰ́νθος (mēnánthos)
• μηνῐ́σκος (mēnískos)

 

Further reading

• “μήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μήνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μήνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μήνη in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • moon idem, page 540.