μέδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowing from a Slavic or Germanic language (if the latter, likely Gothic); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu.

Noun

μέδος • (médos) m

(hapax legomenon) mead

Usage notes

Mentioned only once, as the name of a drink foreigners somewhere on the way from Greece to the court of Attila the Hun had instead of wine.

References

μέδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
μέδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

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