Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μᾶνις ‎(mânis) Doric, Aeolic

Noun

μῆνῐς • ‎(mênis) f ‎(genitive μήνῐος or μήνῐδος); third declension

1. rage, wrath, mostly of the wrath of the gods
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.1

     Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεὰ, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος

     • Translation by T.A. Murray

       The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles

Inflection

The alternative accusative singular, genitive singular and genitive plural forms with δ are first attested in late antiquity.

References

• μῆνις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μῆνις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μῆνις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «μῆνις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «μῆνις» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anger idem, page 29.
  • indignation idem, page 433.
  • ire idem, page 459.
  • passion idem, page 597.
  • rage idem, page 668.
• Wilhelm Pape, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache: μῆνις

1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μῆνις [f.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 946