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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μηδέ (mēdé, “and not”) + εἷς (heîs, “one”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛː.děːs/ → /miˈðis/ → /miˈðis/
Pronoun
μηδείς • (mēdeís)
- and not one
- (not elided)
- nobody, naught, good for naught
125 CE – 200 CE,
Lucian,
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- (neuter, adverbial) not at all, by no means
Inflection
Plural forms such as the masculine nominative plural μηδένες (mēdénes), Ionic μηδᾰμοί (mēdamoí), and accusative plural μηδένᾰς (mēdénas) occur rarely.
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References
- “μηδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μηδείς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μηδείς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μηδείς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μηδείς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3367 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- no idem, page 559.
- nobody idem, page 559.
- none idem, page 562.