μεσίτης
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
μέσος (mésos) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.sǐː.tɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈsi.te̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈsi.tis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈsi.tis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈsi.tis/
Noun
μεσῑ́της • (mesī́tēs) m (genitive μεσῑ́του); first declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ μεσῑ́της ho mesī́tēs |
τὼ μεσῑ́τᾱ tṑ mesī́tā |
οἱ μεσῖται hoi mesîtai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ μεσῑ́του toû mesī́tou |
τοῖν μεσῑ́ταιν toîn mesī́tain |
τῶν μεσῑτῶν tôn mesītôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ μεσῑ́τῃ tôi mesī́tēi |
τοῖν μεσῑ́ταιν toîn mesī́tain |
τοῖς μεσῑ́ταις toîs mesī́tais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν μεσῑ́την tòn mesī́tēn |
τὼ μεσῑ́τᾱ tṑ mesī́tā |
τοὺς μεσῑ́τᾱς toùs mesī́tās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | μεσῖτᾰ mesîta |
μεσῑ́τᾱ mesī́tā |
μεσῖται mesîtai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Greek: μεσίτης (mesítis)
Further reading
- μεσίτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μεσίτης”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μεσίτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G3316 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Koine Greek μεσίτης (mesítēs, “mediator”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
μεσίτης • (mesítis) m (plural μεσίτες, feminine μεσίτρια)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | μεσίτης (mesítis) | μεσίτες (mesítes) |
| genitive | μεσίτη (mesíti) | μεσιτών (mesitón) |
| accusative | μεσίτη (mesíti) | μεσίτες (mesítes) |
| vocative | μεσίτη (mesíti) | μεσίτες (mesítes) |
Derived terms
- κτηματομεσίτης m (ktimatomesítis), κτηματομεσίτρια f (ktimatomesítria)
Related terms
- μεσιτεία f (mesiteía, “mediation”)
- μεσιτικός (mesitikós, “mediative”)
- μεσιτεύω (mesitévo, “mediate”)
References
- ^ μεσίτης, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
Further reading
μεσίτης on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
