μέδω
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *méd-e-ti, from *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mé.dɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈme.do/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈme.ðo/
Verb
editμέδω • (médō)
- to protect, rule over
Inflection
edit Present: μέδω
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | μέδω | μέδεις | μέδει | μέδετον | μέδετον | μέδομεν | μέδετε | μέδουσῐ(ν) | ||||
subjunctive | μέδω | μέδῃς | μέδῃ | μέδητον | μέδητον | μέδωμεν | μέδητε | μέδωσῐ(ν) | |||||
optative | μέδοιμῐ | μέδοις | μέδοι | μέδοιτον | μεδοίτην | μέδοιμεν | μέδοιτε | μέδοιεν | |||||
imperative | μέδε | μεδέτω | μέδετον | μεδέτων | μέδετε | μεδόντων | |||||||
active | |||||||||||||
infinitive | μέδειν | ||||||||||||
participle | m | μέδων | |||||||||||
f | μέδουσᾰ | ||||||||||||
n | μέδον | ||||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Derived terms
editRelated terms
edit- μέδομαι (médomai)
References
edit- “μέδω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μέδω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μέδω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Anagrams
edit- δέμω (démō)