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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Feminine participle of μέδω (médō, “rule, protect”), i.e. "she who rules/protects".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mé.duː.sa/ → /ˈme.ðu.sa/ → /ˈme.ðu.sa/
Proper noun
Μέδουσᾰ • (Médousa) f (genitive Μεδούσης); first declension
- (Greek mythology) Medusa
- (rare) a female given name
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Μέδουσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μέδουσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Μέδουσα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Μέδουσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “Μέδουσα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,011