μῆκος

See also: μήκος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• μᾶκος (mâkos) — Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *mā́kos, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂ḱos. Cognates include Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬯𐬀𐬵 (masah), Latin maciēs, and Hittite [script needed] (mak-l-ant-).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̂ː.kos/ → /ˈmi.kos/ → /ˈmi.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mɛ̂ː.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈme̝.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.kos/

Noun

μῆκος • (mêkos) n (genitive μήκους or μήκεος); third declension

1. length (spatial measurement)
   1. height
   2. any linear measurement
2. length (of time)
3. greatness, magnitude

   Synonym: μέγας (mégas)

4. longitude
5. (prosody) length
6. first line of a phalanx

Inflection

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῆκος tò mêkos	τὼ μήκει tṑ mḗkei	τᾰ̀ μήκη tà mḗkē
Genitive	τοῦ μήκους toû mḗkous	τοῖν μηκοῖν toîn mēkoîn	τῶν μηκῶν tôn mēkôn
Dative	τῷ μήκει tôi mḗkei	τοῖν μηκοῖν toîn mēkoîn	τοῖς μήκεσῐ / μήκεσῐν toîs mḗkesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ μῆκος tò mêkos	τὼ μήκει tṑ mḗkei	τᾰ̀ μήκη tà mḗkē
Vocative	μῆκος mêkos	μήκει mḗkei	μήκη mḗkē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of τὸ μῆκος; τοῦ μήκους (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ μῆκος tò mêkos	τὼ μήκει / μήκεε tṑ mḗkei / mḗkee	τᾰ̀ μήκεᾰ tà mḗkea
Genitive	τοῦ μήκεος / μήκευς toû mḗkeos / mḗkeus	τοῖν μηκέοιν toîn mēkéoin	τῶν μηκέων tôn mēkéōn
Dative	τῷ μήκει / μήκεῐ̈ tôi mḗkei / mḗkeï	τοῖν μηκέοιν toîn mēkéoin	τοῖσῐ / τοῖσῐν μήκεσῐ / μήκεσῐν toîsi(n) mḗkesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ μῆκος tò mêkos	τὼ μήκει / μήκεε tṑ mḗkei / mḗkee	τᾰ̀ μήκεᾰ tà mḗkea
Vocative	μῆκος mêkos	μήκει / μήκεε mḗkei / mḗkee	μήκεᾰ mḗkea
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Third declension of τὸ μῆκος; τοῦ μήκεος (Ionic)

Related terms

• μακρός (makrós)

Descendants

• Greek: μήκος (míkos)

See also

• εὖρος (eûros)
• ὕψος (húpsos)

Further reading

• “μῆκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μῆκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “μῆκος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μῆκος 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
• μῆκος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G3372 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • area idem, page 39.
  • extent idem, page 296.
  • length idem, page 485.
  • stretch idem, page 825.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• “μῆκος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011