Minos

See also: minos and Minòs

English

"There Minos stands", illustration by Gustave Doré for an edition of Dante's Inferno.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnɒs/, /ˈmaɪnəs/

Proper noun

Minos

1. (Greek mythology) The mythological first king of Crete, a son of Zeus by Europa, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth and after death was made a judge of the dead in Hades; a putative corresponding historical person.

   Coordinate terms: Aeacus, Rhadamanthus

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “A Journey from this World to the Next”, in Thomas Roscoe, editor, The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume, Henry G. Bohn, published 1851, page 602:

     At length we arrived at the gate of Elysium. Here was a prodigious crowd of spirits waiting for admittance, some of whom were admitted, and some were rejected; for all were strictly examined by the porter, whom I soon discovered to be the celebrated judge Minos.

   • 1856, Leonhard Schmitz, Connop Thirlwall, A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Corinth, 4th edition, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 37:

     That the Cyclades were subject to Minos, is confirmed by numerous traces; and the general belief of the ancients was, that he founded colonies even in Lemnos and Thrace.

   • 2003, Chris Scarre, Rebecca Stefoff, The Palace of Minos at Knossos, Oxford University Press, page 38:

     Whether or not Minos really existed and ruled at Knossos, the ruins on Kephala hill today are known by the name Evans gave them.

Related terms

• Minoan
• Minotaur

Translations

mythological king of Crete

• Armenian: Մինոս (hy) (Minos)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 米諾斯／米诺斯 (Mǐnuòsī)

• Finnish: Minos
• Georgian: მინოსი (minosi)
• Hungarian: Minósz
• Italian: Minosse m
• Russian: Ми́нос m (Mínos)

Further reading

• Minos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Minos (dialogue) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Purported dialogue of Plato concerning law.)

Anagrams

• Simon, omnis, simon

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmiː.noːs/, [ˈmiːnoːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.nos/, [ˈmiːnos]

Proper noun

Mīnōs m sg (genitive Mīnōis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Minos

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Mīnōs
Genitive	Mīnōis Mīnōnis
Dative	Mīnōī
Accusative	Mīnōem Mīnōa
Ablative	Mīnōe
Vocative	Mīnōs

Further reading

• Minos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.