1. μέθυ · methy — Beekes
The corpus record
μέθυ
methu
entoxicating drink, wine
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Where it lives
- Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
- Odyssey 15 · 1.73/10k
- Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
- Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
- Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
What it meant
2. μέθυ · methy — Chantraine
3. μέθυ · methy — Chantraine
4. μέθῠ · methy — LSJ
wine, Hom., only in nom. and acc., πολλὸν . . μέθυ πίνετο Il. 9.469; σῖτον καὶ μέθυ ἡδύ Od. 4.746; ἐκ κριθῶν μ. A. Supp. 953, etc.: gen. μέθυος first in Pl. Epigr. 19.4 Diehl, Nic. Th. 582, Marc.Sid. 50; dat. μέθυϊ An.Ox. 3.255. (Cf. Skt. mádhu ‘sweet, sweet drink, honey’, OE. medu ‘mead’, Slav. medǔ ‘honey’, etc.)
In the wild
- μέθυ · methy Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 952–953
- μέθυ · methy Euripides, Ion *qera/pwn (DIORISIS sentence 768)
- μέθυ · methy Iliad 7.471
- μέθυ · methy Iliad 9.469
- μέθυ · methy Odyssey 10.184
- μέθυ · methy Odyssey 10.468
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. μέθυ (scan p. 970; entry #3976).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. μέθυ (scan p. 693; entry #5147).
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