Ancient Greek

Proper noun

Μήνη • ‎(Mḗnē) f ‎(genitive Μήνης); first declension

1. The Moon.

   δία Σελήνη, ταυρόκερως Μήνη

   devine Selene, with the horns of the bull

   —(Orphic Hymn 8 to Σελήνη)

   Μήσατο δ' άλλην γαίαν απείρατον,

   ήντε Σελήνην αθάνατοι κλήζουσιν,

   επιχθόνιοι δέ τε Μήνην

   He (God) created another endless earth (heavenly body)

   which the immortal (gods) call Selene,

   and they who live on the Earth (call) Μήνη (Mene).

   —(Orphic fragment 9 – Procl. in Timaeus)

Inflection

Synonyms

• Σελήνη ‎(Selḗnē)

Related terms

• μήνη ‎(mḗnē)

Descendants

• έμμηνος ‎(émminos)
• μήν ‎(mín)
• μήνις ‎(mínis)
• μηνίσκος ‎(minískos)
• μηνοειδής ‎(minoeidís)

Ancient Greek

Noun

μήνη • ‎(mḗnē) f ‎(genitive μήνης); first declension

1. moon

Inflection

Derived terms

• μηνίσκος ‎(mēnískos)

References

• μήνη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μήνη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μήνη in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μήνη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «μήνη» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «μήνη» 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.
  • moon idem, page 540.
  • Moon idem, page 1017.