μηδαμῶς
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From μηδαμός (mēdamós) + -ως (-ōs).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mɛː.da.mɔ̂ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /me̝.daˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mi.ðaˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mi.ðaˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mi.ðaˈmos/
Adverb
[edit]μηδᾰμῶς • (mēdamôs)
- by no means, in no way, not at all
- 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.83:
- Ἀρτάβανος ὁ Ὑστάσπεος, ἀδελφεὸς ἐὼν Δαρείου, ἐχρήιζε μηδαμῶς αὐτὸν στρατηίην ἐπὶ Σκύθας ποιέεσθαι, καταλέγων τῶν Σκυθέων τὴν ἀπορίην.
- Artábanos ho Hustáspeos, adelpheòs eṑn Dareíou, ekhrḗize mēdamôs autòn stratēíēn epì Skúthas poiéesthai, katalégōn tôn Skuthéōn tḕn aporíēn.
- Artabanus, son of Hystaspes and Darius' brother, by no means wanted him to make an expedition against the Scythians, telling him how hard that people were to deal with.
- Ἀρτάβανος ὁ Ὑστάσπεος, ἀδελφεὸς ἐὼν Δαρείου, ἐχρήιζε μηδαμῶς αὐτὸν στρατηίην ἐπὶ Σκύθας ποιέεσθαι, καταλέγων τῶν Σκυθέων τὴν ἀπορίην.
- New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 10:14:
- ὁ δὲ Πέτρος εἶπε, Μηδαμῶς, Κύριε· ὅτι οὐδέποτε ἔφαγον πᾶν κοινὸν ἢ ἀκάθαρτον.
- ho dè Pétros eîpe, Mēdamôs, Kúrie; hóti oudépote éphagon pân koinòn ḕ akátharton.
- But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
- ὁ δὲ Πέτρος εἶπε, Μηδαμῶς, Κύριε· ὅτι οὐδέποτε ἔφαγον πᾶν κοινὸν ἢ ἀκάθαρτον.
Further reading
[edit]- μηδαμῶς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “μηδαμῶς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G3365 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible