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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μή (mḗ, “not”) + τις (tis, “anyone”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛ̌ː.tis/ → /ˈmi.tis/ → /ˈmi.tis/
Adverb
μήτῐς • (mḗtĭs)
- no one
Further reading
- “μήτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μήτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μήτις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μήτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μήτις”, 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.
- no idem, page 559.
- nobody idem, page 559.
- none idem, page 562.