Μαίων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly related to the Anatolian name Masa, itself related to Μυσία (Musía, “Mysia”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

Μαίων • (Maíōn) m (genitive Μαίονος); third declension

  1. an inhabitant of Maeonia or Lydia; one of the Maeones; a Maeonian

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Μαίων; τοῦ Μαίονος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ Μαίων
ho Maíōn 		τὼ Μαίονε
tṑ Maíone 		οἱ Μαίονες
hoi Maíones
Genitive τοῦ Μαίονος
toû Maíonos 		τοῖν Μαιόνοιν
toîn Maiónoin 		τῶν Μαιόνων
tôn Maiónōn
Dative τῷ Μαίονῐ
tōî Maíonĭ 		τοῖν Μαιόνοιν
toîn Maiónoin 		τοῖς Μαίοσῐ / Μαίοσῐν
toîs Maíosĭ(n)
Accusative τὸν Μαίονᾰ
tòn Maíonă 		τὼ Μαίονε
tṑ Maíone 		τοὺς Μαίονᾰς
toùs Maíonăs
Vocative Μαῖον
Maîon 		Μαίονε
Maíone 		Μαίονες
Maíones
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: Μαίων (Maíon)
  • Latin: Maeōn

References

  • “Μαίων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016
  • Μαίων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire, p. 438
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