μινύθω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mi-néw-, from the root *mey- (“to decrease, diminish; small, little”). Compare Latin minuō, Sanskrit मीनाति (mīnā́ti, “to lessen, diminish, damage”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mi.ný.tʰɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /miˈny.tʰo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /miˈny.θo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /miˈny.θo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /miˈni.θo/
Conjugation
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | μῐνῠ́θω | μῐνῠ́θεις | μῐνῠ́θει | μῐνῠ́θετον | μῐνῠ́θετον | μῐνῠ́θομεν | μῐνῠ́θετε | μῐνῠ́θουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | μῐνῠ́θω | μῐνῠ́θῃς | μῐνῠ́θῃ | μῐνῠ́θητον | μῐνῠ́θητον | μῐνῠ́θωμεν | μῐνῠ́θητε | μῐνῠ́θωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | μῐνῠ́θοιμῐ | μῐνῠ́θοις | μῐνῠ́θοι | μῐνῠ́θοιτον | μῐνῠθοίτην | μῐνῠ́θοιμεν | μῐνῠ́θοιτε | μῐνῠ́θοιεν | |||||
| imperative | μῐ́νῠθε | μῐνῠθέτω | μῐνῠ́θετον | μῐνῠθέτων | μῐνῠ́θετε | μῐνῠθόντων | |||||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | μῐνῠ́θομαι | μῐνῠ́θῃ, μῐνῠ́θει |
μῐνῠ́θεται | μῐνῠ́θεσθον | μῐνῠ́θεσθον | μῐνῠθόμεθᾰ | μῐνῠ́θεσθε | μῐνῠ́θονται | ||||
| subjunctive | μῐνῠ́θωμαι | μῐνῠ́θῃ | μῐνῠ́θηται | μῐνῠ́θησθον | μῐνῠ́θησθον | μῐνῠθώμεθᾰ | μῐνῠ́θησθε | μῐνῠ́θωνται | |||||
| optative | μῐνῠθοίμην | μῐνῠ́θοιο | μῐνῠ́θοιτο | μῐνῠ́θοισθον | μῐνῠθοίσθην | μῐνῠθοίμεθᾰ | μῐνῠ́θοισθε | μῐνῠ́θοιντο | |||||
| imperative | μῐνῠ́θου | μῐνῠθέσθω | μῐνῠ́θεσθον | μῐνῠθέσθων | μῐνῠ́θεσθε | μῐνῠθέσθων | |||||||
| active | middle/passive | ||||||||||||
| infinitive | μῐνῠ́θειν | μῐνῠ́θεσθαι | |||||||||||
| participle | m | μῐνῠ́θων | μῐνῠθόμενος | ||||||||||
| f | μῐνῠ́θουσᾰ | μῐνῠθομένη | |||||||||||
| n | μῐνῠ́θον | μῐνῠθόμενον | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | μῐνῠ́θεσκον | μῐνῠ́θεσκες | μῐνῠ́θεσκε(ν) | μῐνῠθέσκετον | μῐνῠθεσκέτην | μῐνῠθέσκομεν | μῐνῠθέσκετε | μῐνῠ́θεσκον | ||||
| middle/ passive |
indicative | μῐνῠθεσκόμην | μῐνῠθέσκου | μῐνῠθέσκετο | μῐνῠθέσκεσθον | μῐνῠθεσκέσθην | μῐνῠθεσκόμεθᾰ | μῐνῠθέσκεσθε | μῐνῠθέσκοντο | ||||
| Notes: | Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms are based on conjecture. Use with caution. For more details, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation. | ||||||||||||
Further reading
- “μινύθω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μινύθω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μινύθω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μινύθω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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