μίμησις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μῑμέομαι (mīméomai, “to simulate”) +‎ -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mǐː.mɛː.sis/ → /ˈmi.mi.sis/ → /ˈmi.mi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mǐː.mɛː.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.me̝.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.mi.sis/

Noun

μῑ́μησῐς • (mī́mēsis) f (genitive μῑμήσεως); third declension

1. simulation

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ μῑ́μησῐς; τῆς μῑμήσεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μῑ́μησῐς hē mī́mēsis	τὼ μῑμήσει tṑ mīmḗsei	αἱ μῑμήσεις hai mīmḗseis
Genitive	τῆς μῑμήσεως tês mīmḗseōs	τοῖν μῑμησέοιν toîn mīmēséoin	τῶν μῑμήσεων tôn mīmḗseōn
Dative	τῇ μῑμήσει têi mīmḗsei	τοῖν μῑμησέοιν toîn mīmēséoin	ταῖς μῑμήσεσῐ / μῑμήσεσῐν taîs mīmḗsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν μῑ́μησῐν tḕn mī́mēsin	τὼ μῑμήσει tṑ mīmḗsei	τᾱ̀ς μῑμήσεις tā̀s mīmḗseis
Vocative	μῑ́μησῐ mī́mēsi	μῑμήσει mīmḗsei	μῑμήσεις mīmḗseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἀπομῑ́μησις (apomī́mēsis)
• μῑμητικός (mīmētikós)

 

Descendants

• → Late Latin: mīmesis (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “μίμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μίμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μίμησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • imitation idem, page 417.
  • mimicry idem, page 529.
  • reproduction idem, page 699.