μέθυ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *métʰu (“intoxicating drink; mead”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey; mead”). Cognates include Sanskrit मधु (mádhu, “honey”), Lithuanian medùs, Old Church Slavonic медъ (medŭ, “honey”), and Old English medu (English mead).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

μέθῠ • (méthu) n (genitive μέθῠος); third declension

  1. (Epic) wine

Inflection
Third declension of τὸ μέθῠ; τοῦ μέθῠος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative τὸ μέθῠ
tò méthu
Genitive τοῦ μέθῠος
toû méthuos
Dative τῷ μέθῠῐ̈
tôi méthuï
Accusative τὸ μέθῠ
tò méthu
Vocative μέθῠ
méthu
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Greek: μέθη (méthi)

References
  • “μέθυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “μέθυ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “μέθυ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • μέθυ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • μέθυ 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.
    • ale idem, page 22.
    • wine idem, page 981.
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