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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μετᾰ- (metă-, “between”) + ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + -ῐον (-ĭon), i.e. "between the waters", so called because of its location at the divide between Peloponessian watersheds.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.tʰý.dri.on/ → /meˈθy.ðri.on/ → /meˈθi.ðri.on/
Proper noun
Μεθῠ́δρῐον • (Methŭ́drĭon) n (genitive Μεθῠδρῐ́ου); second declension
- Methydrium, a town in Arcadia
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References
- “Μεθύδριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,017