μήν

See also: μην

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Hellenic *méns (“month”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”),^[1] probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀕𐀜 (me-no), Latin mēnsis (“month”), and English moon, month.

μήν • (mḗn) m (genitive μηνός); third declension

Third declension of ὁ μήν; τοῦ μηνός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μήν ho mḗn	τὼ μῆνε tṑ mêne	οἱ μῆνες hoi mênes
Genitive	τοῦ μηνός toû mēnós	τοῖν μηνοῖν toîn mēnoîn	τῶν μηνῶν tôn mēnôn
Dative	τῷ μηνῐ́ tōî mēnĭ́	τοῖν μηνοῖν toîn mēnoîn	τοῖς μησῐ́ / μησῐ́ν toîs mēsĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὸν μῆνᾰ tòn mênă	τὼ μῆνε tṑ mêne	τοὺς μῆνᾰς toùs mênăs
Vocative	μήν mḗn	μῆνε mêne	μῆνες mênes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)me(h₂) (“really, true”). Cognate with Old Irish má (“if”), Sanskrit स्म (sma, “verily, assertive particle”).^[2]

μήν • (mḗn) (discourse particle)

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μήν 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 945
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μήν 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 944-5

“μήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“μήν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
μήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
μήν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“μήν”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3376 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
μήν in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- month idem, page 539.
μήν, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011