μεῖδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh”), the same root of Proto-Germanic *smīlijaną (“to smile”) and Latin mīrus (“wonderful”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mêː.dos/ → /ˈmi.ðos/ → /ˈmi.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mêː.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ðos/

Noun

μεῖδος • (meîdos)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: γέλως (gélōs, “laughter”).

References

• “μεῖδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: μ