Μήτις

Where it lives

• Theogony 4 · 5.81/10k
• Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
• Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
• Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Μήτις (scan pp. 999-1000; entry #4079).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Μήτις (scan p. 716; entry #5295).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Μήτις (scan pp. 1204-1205; entry #3880).

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