μοῖτος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *moytH-o-s, which is from *meytH- (“to exchange”), probably through an Old Latin word related to Latin mūtō (“to exchange, barter”). At any rate, unrelated to the group of ἄμοιος (ámoios, “bad”), μοῖος (moîos, “sad, sullen”) and σμοιός (smoiós, “sad, sullen”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /môi̯.tos/ → /ˈmy.tos/ → /ˈmi.tos/

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

Noun

μοῖτος • (moîtos) m (genitive μοίτου); second declension

1. (in Sicily) thanks, favour

   Synonym: χᾰ́ρῐς (kháris)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μοῖτος; τοῦ μοίτου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μοῖτος ho moîtos	τὼ μοίτω tṑ moítō	οἱ μοῖτοι hoi moîtoi
Genitive	τοῦ μοίτου toû moítou	τοῖν μοίτοιν toîn moítoin	τῶν μοίτων tôn moítōn
Dative	τῷ μοίτῳ tôi moítōi	τοῖν μοίτοιν toîn moítoin	τοῖς μοίτοις toîs moítois
Accusative	τὸν μοῖτον tòn moîton	τὼ μοίτω tṑ moítō	τοὺς μοίτους toùs moítous
Vocative	μοῖτε moîte	μοίτω moítō	μοῖτοι moîtoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “μοῖτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μοῖτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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