μεσόλαβος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From μεσο- (meso-, in the middle) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take, grasp”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.só.la.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈso.la.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈso.la.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈso.la.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈso.la.vos/
Noun
[edit]μεσόλᾰβος • (mesólăbos) m (genitive μεσολᾰ́βου); second declension
- mesolabe, a mathematical instrument used for finding mean proportional lines
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ μεσόλᾰβος ho mesólăbos |
τὼ μεσολᾰ́βω tṑ mesolắbō |
οἱ μεσόλᾰβοι hoi mesólăboi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ μεσολᾰ́βου toû mesolắbou |
τοῖν μεσολᾰ́βοιν toîn mesolắboin |
τῶν μεσολᾰ́βων tôn mesolắbōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ μεσολᾰ́βῳ tôi mesolắbōi |
τοῖν μεσολᾰ́βοιν toîn mesolắboin |
τοῖς μεσολᾰ́βοις toîs mesolắbois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν μεσόλᾰβον tòn mesólăbon |
τὼ μεσολᾰ́βω tṑ mesolắbō |
τοὺς μεσολᾰ́βους toùs mesolắbous | ||||||||||
Vocative | μεσόλᾰβε mesólăbe |
μεσολᾰ́βω mesolắbō |
μεσόλᾰβοι mesólăboi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Latin: mesolabium
- → English: mesolabe
Further reading
[edit]- “μεσόλαβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μεσόλαβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
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- Ancient Greek terms prefixed with μεσο-
- Ancient Greek 4-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
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