μῆνις

• μᾶνις (mânis) — Doric, Laconian, Aeolic

Unknown. The long vowel makes it unlikely to be from the same root as μᾰνῐ́ᾱ (mănĭ́ā). Sanskrit मेनि (mení, “wrath, revenge, vengeance”), Sanskrit मन्यु (manyú, “anger, sorrow, spirit”), Albanian mëni, mëri (“anger, sorrow”). Alternately, following Beekes, a religious Pre-Greek word.^[1]

μῆνῐς • (mênĭs) f (genitive μήνῐος or μήνῐδος); third declension

1. rage; wrath (especially of the gods)
   • c. 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.1:

     Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεὰ, Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος

     Mênin áeide, theà, Pēlēïádeō Akhilêos

     • Translation by T.A. Murray

       The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles

The forms with -δ- are first attested in late antiquity.

• “μῆνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μῆνις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μῆνις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μῆνις in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μῆνις 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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • anger idem, page 29.
  • indignation idem, page 433.
  • ire idem, page 459.
  • passion idem, page 597.
  • rage idem, page 668.
• Wilhelm Pape, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache: μῆνις