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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μετ᾽ (“transcending, encompassing, median”) + ὁδός (hodós, “road, way, path”), literally “the transcending path”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mé.tʰo.dos/ → /ˈme.θo.ðos/ → /ˈme.θo.ðos/
Noun
μέθοδος • (méthodos) f (genitive μεθόδου); second declension
- following after, pursuit
- pursuit of knowledge, investigation, inquiry; hence, treatise
- mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, plan
- doctrine
- “methodic” medicine
- (rhetoric) means
- means of recognizing
- mode of treating the subject-matter
- trick, ruse, stratagem
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Descendants
References
- “μέθοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέθοδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μέθοδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “μέθοδος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos).
Pronunciation
Noun
μέθοδος • (méthodos) f (plural μέθοδοι)
- method, system
- αναλυτική μέθοδος ― analytikí méthodos ― analytical method
- fashion
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