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Ancient Greek
- μέχρῐς (mékhris) — before vowels
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *méǵʰ(s)ri (locative), from *me (“with”) (see also μετά (metá)) + *ǵʰes- (“hand”) (whence χείρ (kheír, “hand”)). Cognate with its zero-grade ἄχρι (ákhri, “utterly, as far as”), Old Armenian մերձ (merj, “near, by”) and Albanian ndjerë (“until, near”).[1]
The genitive is from the PIE ablative of comparison/extent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mé.kʰri/ → /ˈme.xri/ → /ˈme.xri/
Adverb
μέχρῐ • (mékhri)
- until
Conjunction
μέχρῐ • (mékhri)
- until
Preposition
μέχρι • (mékhri) (governs the genitive)
- Marker of spatial extension: as far as
- Marker of temporal extension: until
- Marker of general extent: to the point of, so far as
Usage notes
The general rule of μέχρῐς (mékhris) being used before vowels only holds true in poetry, and is generally (but not always) ignored in prose works, with μέχρι being used regardless of what follows.
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “μέχρι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέχρι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μέχρι”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μέχρι in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G3360 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- far idem, page 306.
- till idem, page 874.
- up idem, page 937.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek μέχρι (mékhri).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmexɾi/
- Hyphenation: μέ‧χρι
Preposition
μέχρι • (méchri)
- until, till, til, 'til
- θα μείνω μέχρι… ― tha meíno méchri… ― I will stay until…
- μέχρι το 1975 ― méchri to 1975 ― until 1975
- until, as far as
- μέχρι τέλους ― méchri télous ― as far as the end
Περπατάω μέχρι την ταβέρνα.- Perpatáo méchri tin tavérna.
- I walked as far as the taverna.
Synonyms
- έως (éos) (preposition)
- ως (os) (preposition)
- ωσότου (osótou) (conjunction)
- ώσπου (óspou) (conjunction)