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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mēwdʰ- (“to complain, be emotional about”). However, Beekes argues in favor of a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mîː.sos/ → /ˈmi.sos/ → /ˈmi.sos/
Noun
μῖσος • (mîsos) n (genitive μῑ́σους); third declension
- hatred, hate
Inflection
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Descendants
Further reading
- “μῖσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μῖσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μῖσος 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.
- abhorrence idem, page 2.
- abomination idem, page 2.
- aversion idem, page 55.
- bugbear idem, page 103.
- detestation idem, page 219.
- dislike idem, page 234.
- execration idem, page 290.
- hatred idem, page 388.
- loathing idem, page 496.
- repugnance idem, page 699.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN