μήτι

Univerbation of μή (mḗ, “so that...not, lest”) +‎ τι (ti, “anything”).

• μή τι (mḗ ti)

μήτῐ • (mḗtĭ)

1. so that nothing, lest anything

• μήτις (mḗtis)

μήτι • (mḗti) (interrogative particle)

1. used to introduce questions expecting a negative answer

• The Gospel of Mark 14:19:

  οἱ δὲ ἤρξαντο λυπεῖσθαι, καὶ λέγειν αὐτῷ εἷς καθ’ εἷς, Μή τι ἐγώ; καὶ ἄλλος, Μή τι ἐγώ;

  hoi dè ḗrxanto lupeîsthai, kaì légein autōî heîs kath’ heîs, Mḗ ti egṓ? kaì állos, Mḗ ti egṓ?

  • Translation by KJV

    And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?

• 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 6:39:

  Εἶπε δὲ παραβολὴν αὐτοῖς, Μήτι δύναται τυφλὸς τυφλὸν ὁδηγεῖν; οὐχὶ ἀμφότεροι εἰς βόθυνον πεσοῦνται;

  Eîpe dè parabolḕn autoîs, Mḗti dúnatai tuphlòs tuphlòn hodēgeîn? oukhì amphóteroi eis bóthunon pesoûntai?

  • Translation by KJV

    And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

μήτι • (mḗti)

1. not at all, by no means

• μήτί γε (mḗtí ge, “let alone, much less”)

• “μήτις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• μή τις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• μήτι, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “μήτις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “μήτις”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• G3385 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

μήτῑ • (mḗtī)

1. dative singular of μῆτῐς (mêtĭs)