μήτις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μή (mḗ, “not”) +‎ τις (tis, “anyone”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.tis/ → /ˈmi.tis/ → /ˈmi.tis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛ̌ː.tis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme̝.tis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tis/

Adverb

μήτῐς • (mḗtĭs)

1. no one

Further reading

• “μήτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μήτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μήτις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μήτις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• (no entry for the specified headword) Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μήτις”, 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • no idem, page 559.
  • nobody idem, page 559.
  • none idem, page 562.