Ancient Greek

Noun

μύρμηξ • ‎(múrmēx) m ‎(genitive μύρμηκος); third declension

1. ant
2. a beast of prey in India

Derived terms

• μυρμηδών ‎(murmēdṓn, “ant nest”) > myrmidon

Descendants

• English: myrmeco-, -myrmex
• Latin: myrmecias, myrmecitis, myrmecium
• Translingual: Myrmica, Myrmecia

References

• μύρμηξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μύρμηξ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μύρμηξ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «μύρμηξ» 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.
  • ant idem, page 32.