μῆνις

See also: μήνις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cf. Sanskrit मेनि (mení, wrath, revenge, vengeance), Sanskrit मन्यु (manyú, anger, sorrow, spirit). Alternately, following Beekes, a religious Pre-Greek word.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

μῆνῐς (mênis) f (genitive μήνῐος or μήνῐδος); third declension

  1. rage, wrath, mostly of the wrath of the gods
    • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.1:
      Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεὰ, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
      Mênin áeide, theà, Pēlēïádeō Akhilêos
      • Translation by T.A. Murray
        The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles

Inflection

The alternative accusative singular, genitive singular and genitive plural forms with δ are first attested in late antiquity.

References

  • μῆνις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • μῆνις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • μῆνις in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • μῆνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • μῆνις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • Wilhelm Pape, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache: μῆνις
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), μῆνις [f.]”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 946
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