Μαίανδρος
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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mǎi̯.an.dros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.an.dros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.an.dros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.an.dros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.an.dros/
Proper noun
Μαίανδρος • (Maíandros) m (genitive Μαιάνδρου); second declension
- the river Maeander; the river Büyük Menderes
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Μαίανδρος ho Maíandros | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Μαιάνδρου toû Maiándrou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Μαιάνδρῳ tôi Maiándrōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Μαίανδρον tòn Maíandron | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Μαίανδρε Maíandre | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → English: Maeander; meander
- Greek: Μαίανδρος (Maíandros)
- Latin: Maeander, Maeandrus, Maeandros
- → Turkish: Menderes
Further reading
- “Μαίανδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Μαίανδρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Μαίανδρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016