μεθύω
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) + -ω (-ō, “verbal suffix”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.tʰý.ɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈtʰy.o/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈθy.o/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈθy.o/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈθi.o/
Verb
μεθύω • (methúō)
Usage notes
The future and aorist tenses are supplied by μεθύσκω (methúskō).
Inflection
Present: μεθῠ́ω, μεθῠ́ομαι
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | μεθῠ́ω | μεθῠ́εις | μεθῠ́ει | μεθῠ́ετον | μεθῠ́ετον | μεθῠ́ομεν | μεθῠ́ετε | μεθῠ́ουσῐ(ν) | ||||
| subjunctive | μεθῠ́ω | μεθῠ́ῃς | μεθῠ́ῃ | μεθῠ́ητον | μεθῠ́ητον | μεθῠ́ωμεν | μεθῠ́ητε | μεθῠ́ωσῐ(ν) | |||||
| optative | μεθῠ́οιμῐ | μεθῠ́οις | μεθῠ́οι | μεθῠ́οιτον | μεθῠοίτην | μεθῠ́οιμεν | μεθῠ́οιτε | μεθῠ́οιεν | |||||
| imperative | μέθῠε | μεθῠέτω | μεθῠ́ετον | μεθῠέτων | μεθῠ́ετε | μεθῠόντων | |||||||
| middle/ |
indicative | μεθῠ́ομαι | μεθῠ́ῃ, μεθῠ́ει |
μεθῠ́εται | μεθῠ́εσθον | μεθῠ́εσθον | μεθῠόμεθᾰ | μεθῠ́εσθε | μεθῠ́ονται | ||||
| subjunctive | μεθῠ́ωμαι | μεθῠ́ῃ | μεθῠ́ηται | μεθῠ́ησθον | μεθῠ́ησθον | μεθῠώμεθᾰ | μεθῠ́ησθε | μεθῠ́ωνται | |||||
| optative | μεθῠοίμην | μεθῠ́οιο | μεθῠ́οιτο | μεθῠ́οισθον | μεθῠοίσθην | μεθῠοίμεθᾰ | μεθῠ́οισθε | μεθῠ́οιντο | |||||
| imperative | μεθῠ́ου | μεθῠέσθω | μεθῠ́εσθον | μεθῠέσθων | μεθῠ́εσθε | μεθῠέσθων | |||||||
| active | middle/ | ||||||||||||
| infinitive | μεθῠ́ειν | μεθῠ́εσθαι | |||||||||||
| participle | m | μεθῠ́ων | μεθῠόμενος | ||||||||||
| f | μεθῠ́ουσᾰ | μεθῠομένη | |||||||||||
| n | μεθῠ́ον | μεθῠόμενον | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Imperfect: ἐμέθυον, ἐμεθυόμην
| number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
| active | indicative | ἐμέθυον | ἐμέθυες | ἐμέθυε(ν) | ἐμεθύετον | ἐμεθυέτην | ἐμεθύομεν | ἐμεθύετε | ἐμέθυον | ||||
| middle/ |
indicative | ἐμεθυόμην | ἐμεθύου | ἐμεθύετο | ἐμεθύεσθον | ἐμεθυέσθην | ἐμεθυόμεθᾰ | ἐμεθύεσθε | ἐμεθύοντο | ||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Descendants
- Greek: μεθώ (methó)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “μέθυ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 919: “DER > line 3 > μεθύ-ω”
Further reading
- “μεθύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μεθύω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μεθύω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μεθύω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “μεθύω”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- μεθύω in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G3184 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μεθύω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011