μέσος

• μέσσος (méssos) — Epic, Doric
• μέττος (méttos) — Boeotian, Cretan

From Proto-Hellenic *métsos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).^[1] Cognate with Latin medius, Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬁𐬥𐬀 (maⁱδiiāna), Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ), etc.

μέσος • (mésos) m (feminine μέση, neuter μέσον); first/second declension

1. middle of, between, amidst
2. half
3. of middling quality: moderate, intermediate

• Greek: μέσος (mésos, “middle”)

  ⇒ μέση (mési)

  ⇒ μέσο (méso)

μέσος • (mésos) m (genitive μέσου); second declension

1. the middle finger
   • 375 BCE, Plato, The Republic 523c
2. (astronomy) the ecliptic of a celestial body
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Metaphysics 1073β.20
   • 190 BCE – 120 BCE, Hipparchus, Collected Works 1.9.3
   • 3rd century CE, Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 7.146
   • Gem. 2.21
   • 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Alm. 2.7
3. (logic) the middle term of a syllogism

   Synonym: μέσον (méson)

   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Prior Analytics 25β.33

• “μέσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μέσος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μέσος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μέσος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• μέσος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “μέσος”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3319 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • average idem, page 55.
  • central idem, page 122.
  • intermediate idem, page 451.
  • middle idem, page 527.
  • thick idem, page 865.
• μέσος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

From Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos), from Proto-Hellenic *métsos, Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).

μέσος • (mésos) m (feminine μέση, neuter μέσο)

1. middle, mid
2. average, mean
3. compromise

μέσος • (mésos) m (plural μέσοι)

1. (mathematics) average, mean

   Coordinate term: διάμεσος (diámesos)

   αριθμητικός μέσος ― arithmitikós mésos ― arithmetic mean

2. (soccer) midfielder
3. middle finger
4. middle toe

• (middle finger): μεσαίο δάχτυλο n (mesaío dáchtylo)