μηνίσκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From μείς (meís, “month; moon”) +‎ -ῐ́σκος (-ĭ́skos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛː.nís.kos/ → /miˈnis.kos/ → /miˈnis.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛː.nís.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /me̝ˈnis.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /miˈnis.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /miˈnis.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /miˈnis.kos/

Noun

μηνῐ́σκος • (mēnĭ́skos) m (genitive μηνῐ́σκου); second declension

1. crescent
2. head covering for statues
3. neck-ornament
4. crescent-shaped line of battle

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μηνῐ́σκος; τοῦ μηνῐ́σκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μηνῐ́σκος ho mēnĭ́skos	τὼ μηνῐ́σκω tṑ mēnĭ́skō	οἱ μηνῐ́σκοι hoi mēnĭ́skoi
Genitive	τοῦ μηνῐ́σκου toû mēnĭ́skou	τοῖν μηνῐ́σκοιν toîn mēnĭ́skoin	τῶν μηνῐ́σκων tôn mēnĭ́skōn
Dative	τῷ μηνῐ́σκῳ tôi mēnĭ́skōi	τοῖν μηνῐ́σκοιν toîn mēnĭ́skoin	τοῖς μηνῐ́σκοις toîs mēnĭ́skois
Accusative	τὸν μηνῐ́σκον tòn mēnĭ́skon	τὼ μηνῐ́σκω tṑ mēnĭ́skō	τοὺς μηνῐ́σκους toùs mēnĭ́skous
Vocative	μηνῐ́σκε mēnĭ́ske	μηνῐ́σκω mēnĭ́skō	μηνῐ́σκοι mēnĭ́skoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• English: meniscus
• French: ménisque m
• Greek: μηνίσκος m (minískos)
• Italian: menisco m
• Portuguese: menisco m
• Russian: мени́ск m (menísk)
• Spanish: menisco m

References

• “μηνίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μηνίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μηνίσκος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μηνίσκος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften