μείων

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”) + -ίων (-íōn, “comparative adjective suffix”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

μείων • (meíōn) m or f (neuter μεῖον); third declension

  1. less
    Antonym: πλείων (pleíōn)
  2. smaller

Declension

Third declension of μείων; μεῖον (Attic)
Number Singular Dual Plural
Case/Gender Masculine / Feminine Neuter Masculine / Feminine Neuter Masculine / Feminine Neuter
Nominative μείων
meíōn 		μεῖον
meîon 		μείονε
meíone 		μείονε
meíone 		μείονες / μείους
meíones / meíous 		μείονᾰ / μείω
meíonă / meíō
Genitive μείονος
meíonos 		μείονος
meíonos 		μειόνοιν
meiónoin 		μειόνοιν
meiónoin 		μειόνων
meiónōn 		μειόνων
meiónōn
Dative μείονῐ
meíonĭ 		μείονῐ
meíonĭ 		μειόνοιν
meiónoin 		μειόνοιν
meiónoin 		μείοσῐ / μείοσῐν / μειόνοις
meíosĭ(n) / meiónois 		μείοσῐ / μείοσῐν
meíosĭ(n)
Accusative μείονᾰ / μείω
meíonă / meíō 		μεῖον
meîon 		μείονε
meíone 		μείονε
meíone 		μείονᾰς / μείους
meíonăs / meíous 		μείονᾰ / μείω
meíonă / meíō
Vocative μεῖον
meîon 		μεῖον
meîon 		μείονε
meíone 		μείονε
meíone 		μείονες / μείους
meíones / meíous 		μείονᾰ / μείω
meíonă / meíō
Derived forms Adverb Comparative Superlative
μεῖον
meîon 		— —
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Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “μείων”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 923

Further reading

  • “μείων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “μείων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “μείων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • μείων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • μείων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “μείων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
    • less idem, page 485.
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