Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μείς ‎(meís)
• μής ‎(mḗs) Laconian
• μεύς ‎(meús) Elean

Pronunciation

Noun

μήν • ‎(mḗn) m ‎(genitive μηνός); third declension

1. Attic form of μείς ‎(meís, “month”)

Inflection

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• μᾱ́ν ‎(mā́n) Aeolic, Doric

Particle

μήν • ‎(mḗn)

1. used to strengthen statements: surely, truly, definitely
2. (after other particles)
   1. (ἦ μήν) absolutely
   2. (καὶ μήν) used to introduce something new or convey affirmation
   3. (αλλὰ μήν) yet truly, on the other hand
   4. (οὐ μήν) certainly not
   5. (μήτε μήν) not even
3. (after interrogatives, τί μήν) of course, naturally
4. (after a negative) applies an adversative force

References

• μήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μήν in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μήν in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μήν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «μήν» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μήν in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3376”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «μήν» 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • month idem, page 539.