μέθοδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μετ᾽ (“transcending, encompassing, median”) +‎ ὁδός (hodós, “road, way, path”), literally “the transcending path”.

Pronunciation

Noun

μέθοδος • (méthodos) f (genitive μεθόδου); second declension

1. following after, pursuit
2. pursuit of knowledge, investigation, inquiry; hence, treatise
   1. mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, plan
   2. doctrine
   3. “methodic” medicine
   4. (rhetoric) means
      1. means of recognizing
      2. mode of treating the subject-matter
3. trick, ruse, stratagem

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

• Armenian: մեթոդ (metʻod)
• Esperanto: metodo
• Georgian: მეთოდი (metodi)
• Greek: μέθοδος (méthodos)
• Hebrew: מֶתוֹדָה (metóda)
• Italian: metodo
• Latin: methodus (see there for further descendants)
• Portuguese: método
• Russian: ме́тод (métod)

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.
  • course idem, page 178.
  • method idem, page 527.
  • procedure idem, page 644.
  • process idem, page 644.
  • system idem, page 851.
• μέθοδος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek μέθοδος (méthodos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.θo.ðos/

Noun

μέθοδος • (méthodos) f (plural μέθοδοι)

1. method, system

   αναλυτική μέθοδος ― analytikí méthodos ― analytical method

2. fashion

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• μέθοδος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.