μάψ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Adverb in -ς, always occurring before vowel, of unexplained origin. Not related to Latin mox (“soon”). It could well be Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /máps/ → /maps/ → /maps/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /máps/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /maps/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /maps/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /maps/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /maps/

Adverb

μάψ • (máps)

1. in vain

Derived terms

• μαψιδίως (mapsidíōs)

Further reading

• “μάψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μάψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μάψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μάψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μάψ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μάψ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN