μένω

• μίνω (mínō) — Arcadocypriot

From Proto-Hellenic *ménō, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stay, stand still”). Cognates include Latin maneō (“remain”), Persian ماندن (mândan, “to remain”).^[1]

μένω • (ménō)

1. to stay, wait
   1. (in battle) to stand fast
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 854
      • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 945
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.55
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.317
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.659
      • 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 295
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.26
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.3.45
   2. to stay where one is
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 317
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 232
      • 407 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 656
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.62
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 598
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.838
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 3.43
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 80
   3. to lodge
      • Alciphron, Collected Works 3.5
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Letters 13
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.146
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 30.4.10
   4. to tarry; to loiter, be idle
      • 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 796
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 9.45
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.666
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 17.570
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 4.4.19
   5. (of things) to be lasting; to remain, stand
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 672
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 744
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.434
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 6.4
      • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, Sto. 339.15
      • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 440a
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 261d
   6. (of condition) to remain
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1133b14
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1167b7
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, First Philippic 9
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Philip 11
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 1000
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.5
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.201
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.263
      • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, On the Peace 7
      • 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 480b
      • Module:Quotations:526: attempt to compare number with nil
      • Module:Quotations:526: attempt to compare number with nil
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 12.2.8
      • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 169
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.76
   7. to abide by
      • 361 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Midias 94
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 356e
   8. (impersonal, with infinitive) it remains
      • 470 BCE, Aeschylus, The Suppliants 435
      • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 733
2. (of persons) to await, expect
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1277
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 103
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Fragments 37
   • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 436
   • 408 BCE, Euripides, The Phoenician Women 740
   • c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 66
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.527
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 15.620
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 20:23
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.124
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.78
   1. to wait for (accusative) to (infinitive)
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 459
      • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 677
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 255
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.247
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.422
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 3.16
      • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 351

• “μένω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μένω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μένω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μένω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μένω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3306 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Inherited from Ancient Greek μένω (ménō), from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.no/
• Hyphenation: μέ‧νω

μένω • (méno) (past έμεινα, passive —)

1. (intransitive) to stay, reside, live (somewhere)

   δε μένω πια εδώ ― de méno pia edó ― I don't live here anymore

   Οι γονείς μου τότε έμεναν στην Αθήνα.

   Oi goneís mou tóte émenan stin Athína.

   My parents were then living in Athens.

2. (copulative) to stay, remain (in a condition)

   μένω ανύπαντρος ― méno anýpantros ― I remain single

3. (intransitive) to remain, be left over see: μένει (ménei) (3rd person, impersonal)

   Δε μένει τίποτα να πούμε. ― De ménei típota na poúme. ― There is nothing left to be said.

4. (transitive) to fail (examination)

• (reside): κατοικώ (katoikó, “to inhabit, to reside permanently”)
• (remain): απομένω (apoméno)
• (remain): παραμένω (paraméno)

• μένω (méno, “to live, be alive”)