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μείς

meis

1156 — ion

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 113 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. μεῖς · meis — Chantraine

μεῖς — 1156 — ion.-att., etc.), ὑμός (Hom., cf. Chantraine, Gr. Hom. 1,271-272, dor.), ὄὕμμος (éol. selon A.D.) «votre»; pour ὑμεδαπός «votre compatriote» {Hdn. Gr, Hid., etc.), voir ἡμεδαπός s.u. ἡμεῖς. L'accus. bué, Üuue repose sur Ἔδσμε, le nom. ὑμές, Üuues peut également être ancien, puis furent créés le nom. ὑμεῖς (de -éec), l’acc. ὑμέας, ὑμᾶς, le génitif ὑμέων, ὑμῶν, ὑμμέων, puis les datifs ὁμίν, ὑμῖν, … — [Chantraine, s.v. μεῖς, p. 1175]

2. μείς · meis — LSJ

month, from, the month, month, the lunar month, in the course of, monthly, by the month, per month, month, month

month, Il. l.c., etc.; τοῦ μὲν φθίνοντος μηνός, τοῦ δʼ ἱσταμένοιο Od. 14.162, cf. Hes. Op. 780, Th. 59; ἱσταμένου τοῦ μ. εἰνάτη Hdt. 6.106, cf. Th. 4.52, etc.; μηνὸς τετάρτῃ φθίνοντος on the fourth day from the end of the month, Foed. ap. eund. 5.19; Μαιμακτηριῶνος δεκάτῃ ἀπιόντος, i.e. on the 21st, Decr. ap. D. 18.37; μηνῶν φθινὰς ἁμέρα the last of the month, E. Heracl. 779 (lyr.); τελευτῶντος τοῦ μηνός at the end of the lunar month (when there was no moon-light), Th. 2.4; ἐκείνου τοῦ μηνός in

2 crescent moon, the part of the month corresponding to a phase of the moon, the visible part of the moon

crescent moon, Thphr. l.c. (μείς); the part of the month corresponding to a phase of the moon, ibid. (μείς and μήν); the visible part of the moon, Chrysipp. l.c. (μείς).

3 ornament in form of crescent moon

ornament in form of crescent moon, IG 1(2).387.32 (v B. C., μήν).

b

= μηνίσκος I, prob. in Ar. Av. 1115, cf. Cleom. 2.5.

II Lunus

as pr. n., the god Lunus, masc. of Μήνη, Luc. JTr. 8. (I.-E. stem mēns- ‘moon’, ‘month’, cf. Lat. mensis, gen. pl. mensum, etc.)

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Where it came from

  • Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. μείς (scan p. 1175; entry #8237). Root candidates: *us-.

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