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μῆκος
μῆκος
See also: μήκος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Noun
μῆκος • (mêkos) n (genitive μήκους or μήκεος); third declension
- length (spatial measurement)
- length (of time)
- greatness, magnitude
- longitude
- (prosody) length
- first line of a phalanx
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μῆκος | τὼ μήκεε | τᾰ̀ μήκεᾰ | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μήκεος | τοῖν μηκέοιν | τῶν μηκέων | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μήκεῐ̈ | τοῖν μηκέοιν | τοῖς μήκεσῐ(ν) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μῆκος | τὼ μήκεε | τᾰ̀ μήκεᾰ | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῆκος | μήκεε | μήκεᾰ | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. |
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ μῆκος | τὼ μήκει | τᾰ̀ μήκη | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μήκους | τοῖν μηκοῖν | τῶν μηκῶν | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μήκει | τοῖν μηκοῖν | τοῖς μήκεσῐ(ν) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ μῆκος | τὼ μήκει | τᾰ̀ μήκη | ||||||||||
Vocative | μῆκος | μήκει | μήκη | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. |
Related terms
- μακρός (makrós)
Descendants
- Greek: μήκος (míkos)
References
- μῆκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μῆκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μῆκος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «μῆκος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «μῆκος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “G3372”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill