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μῆον

μῆον

Ancient Greek

Noun

μῆον • ‎(mêon) n ‎(genitive μήου); second declension

baldmoney, spignel, Meum athamanticum
- 40 CE – 90 CE, Dioscorides, Materia medica 1.3
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 14.150

Declension

Second declension of μῆον, μήου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῆον	τὼ μήω	τὰ μῆᾰ
Genitive	τοῦ μήου	τοῖν μήοιν	τῶν μήων
Dative	τῷ μήῳ	τοῖν μήοιν	τοῖς μήοις
Accusative	τὸ μῆον	τὼ μήω	τὰ μῆᾰ
Vocative	μῆον	μήω	μῆᾰ

Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Descendants

English: meon
French: méon, méon athamantique
Latin: mēum
- English: meum
- (perhaps) Middle French: meu
  - English: meu
- Translingual: Meum, Meum athamanticum

References

μῆον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
«μῆον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette