μῆτις

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *mḗtis, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₁tis (measurement), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (to measure).

Cognate with Old English mǣþ. Apparently an Aeolic or Doric form, as the Attic-Ionic form would have been *μῆσις (*mêsis).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

μῆτῐς (mêtisf (genitive μήτῐος or μήτῐδος); third declension (poetic)

  1. skill
  2. counsel
  3. plan

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: metis²

Further reading

  • μῆτις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • μῆτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press