Minos

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See also: minos and Minòs

English

"There Minos stands", illustration by Gustave Doré for an edition of Dante's Inferno.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɪnɒs/, /ˈmaɪnəs/

Proper noun

Minos

  1. (Greek mythology) The mythological first king of Crete, a son of Zeus by Europa, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth and after death was made a judge of the dead in Hades; a putative corresponding historical person.
    Coordinate terms: Aeacus, Rhadamanthus
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, “A Journey from this World to the Next”, in Thomas Roscoe, editor, The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume, Henry G. Bohn, published 1851, page 602:
      At length we arrived at the gate of Elysium. Here was a prodigious crowd of spirits waiting for admittance, some of whom were admitted, and some were rejected; for all were strictly examined by the porter, whom I soon discovered to be the celebrated judge Minos.
    • 1856, Leonhard Schmitz, Connop Thirlwall, A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Corinth, 4th edition, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 37:
      That the Cyclades were subject to Minos, is confirmed by numerous traces; and the general belief of the ancients was, that he founded colonies even in Lemnos and Thrace.
    • 2003, Chris Scarre, Rebecca Stefoff, The Palace of Minos at Knossos, Oxford University Press, page 38:
      Whether or not Minos really existed and ruled at Knossos, the ruins on Kephala hill today are known by the name Evans gave them.

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Latin

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mīnōs m sg (genitive Mīnōis); third declension

  1. (Greek mythology) Minos

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Mīnōs
genitive Mīnōis
Mīnōnis
dative Mīnōī
accusative Mīnōem
Mīnōa
ablative Mīnōe
vocative Mīnōs

Further reading

  • Minos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.