Μίδας
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Phrygian Μιδας (Midas).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mí.daːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.das/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.ðas/
Proper noun
Μῐ́δᾱς • (Mídās) m (genitive Μῐ́δου); first declension
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Μίδας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μίδας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Μίδας”, 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 1,017