μαιευτική

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Ellipsis of μαιευτικὴ τέχνη (maieutikḕ tékhnē), from μαιεύομαι (maieúomai, “to serve as a midwife”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mai̯.eu̯.ti.kɛ̌ː/ → /mɛ.eɸ.tiˈci/ → /me.ef.tiˈci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mai̯.eu̯.ti.kɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /mɛ.ew.tiˈke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /mɛ.eɸ.tiˈci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /me.ef.tiˈci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /me.ef.tiˈci/

Noun

μαιευτική • (maieutikḗ) f (genitive μαιευτικῆς); first declension

1. maieutics

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μαιευτική; τῆς μαιευτικῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μαιευτική hē maieutikḗ	τὼ μαιευτικᾱ́ tṑ maieutikā́	αἱ μαιευτικαί hai maieutikaí
Genitive	τῆς μαιευτικῆς tês maieutikês	τοῖν μαιευτικαῖν toîn maieutikaîn	τῶν μαιευτικῶν tôn maieutikôn
Dative	τῇ μαιευτικῇ têi maieutikêi	τοῖν μαιευτικαῖν toîn maieutikaîn	ταῖς μαιευτικαῖς taîs maieutikaîs
Accusative	τὴν μαιευτικήν tḕn maieutikḗn	τὼ μαιευτικᾱ́ tṑ maieutikā́	τᾱ̀ς μαιευτικᾱ́ς tā̀s maieutikā́s
Vocative	μαιευτική maieutikḗ	μαιευτικᾱ́ maieutikā́	μαιευτικαί maieutikaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → French: maïeutique (learned)
• → German: Mäeutik (learned)

Further reading

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