μίνθος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like ὄνθος (ónthos, “dung of animals”), σπέλεθος (spélethos, “dung, ordure”) and σπύραθος (spúrathos, “droppings of goats and sheep”). According to Beekes, probably from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mín.tʰos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmin.tʰos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmin.θos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmin.θos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmin.θos/

Noun

μῐ́νθος • (mĭ́nthos) m (genitive μῐ́νθου); second declension

shit, especially of humans

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μῐ́νθος; τοῦ μῐ́νθου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μῐ́νθος ho mĭ́nthos	τὼ μῐ́νθω tṑ mĭ́nthō	οἱ μῐ́νθοι hoi mĭ́nthoi
Genitive	τοῦ μῐ́νθου toû mĭ́nthou	τοῖν μῐ́νθοιν toîn mĭ́nthoin	τῶν μῐ́νθων tôn mĭ́nthōn
Dative	τῷ μῐ́νθῳ tôi mĭ́nthōi	τοῖν μῐ́νθοιν toîn mĭ́nthoin	τοῖς μῐ́νθοις toîs mĭ́nthois
Accusative	τὸν μῐ́νθον tòn mĭ́nthon	τὼ μῐ́νθω tṑ mĭ́nthō	τοὺς μῐ́νθους toùs mĭ́nthous
Vocative	μῐ́νθε mĭ́nthe	μῐ́νθω mĭ́nthō	μῐ́νθοι mĭ́nthoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

μῐνθόω (mĭnthóō)

“μίνθος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μίνθος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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