μηνίσκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μείς (meís, “month; moon”) +‎ -ῐ́σκος (-ískos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛː.nís.kos/ → /miˈnis.kos/ → /miˈnis.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛː.nís.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me̝ˈnis.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈnis.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈnis.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈnis.kos/

Noun

μηνῐ́σκος • (mēnískos) m (genitive μηνῐ́σκου); second declension

1. crescent
2. head covering for statues
3. neck-ornament
4. crescent-shaped line of battle

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μηνῐ́σκος; τοῦ μηνῐ́σκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μηνῐ́σκος ho mēnískos	τὼ μηνῐ́σκω tṑ mēnískō	οἱ μηνῐ́σκοι hoi mēnískoi
Genitive	τοῦ μηνῐ́σκου toû mēnískou	τοῖν μηνῐ́σκοιν toîn mēnískoin	τῶν μηνῐ́σκων tôn mēnískōn
Dative	τῷ μηνῐ́σκῳ tôi mēnískōi	τοῖν μηνῐ́σκοιν toîn mēnískoin	τοῖς μηνῐ́σκοις toîs mēnískois
Accusative	τὸν μηνῐ́σκον tòn mēnískon	τὼ μηνῐ́σκω tṑ mēnískō	τοὺς μηνῐ́σκους toùs mēnískous
Vocative	μηνῐ́σκε mēníske	μηνῐ́σκω mēnískō	μηνῐ́σκοι mēnískoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: meniscus
• French: ménisque m
• Greek: μηνίσκος m (minískos)
• Italian: menisco m
• Portuguese: menisco m
• Russian: мени́ск m (menísk)
• Spanish: menisco m

References

• “μηνίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μηνίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μηνίσκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μηνίσκος 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