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μείς

μείς

Ancient Greek

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Noun

μείς (meís) f (genitive μηνός); third declension

  1. month
    • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.114
      ἣ δ᾽ ἐκύει φίλον υἱόν, ὃ δ᾽ ἕβδομος ἑστήκει μείς
      And she bore a beloved son; and the seventh month was come.
  2. visible part of the moon

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References

  • μείς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • μείς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • μείς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • «μείς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • μείς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter