μιμικός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From μῖμος (mîmos) + -ικός (-ikós)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /miː.mi.kós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /mi.miˈkos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /mi.miˈkos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /mi.miˈkos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /mi.miˈkos/
Adjective
μῑμῐκός • (mīmĭkós) m (feminine μῑμῐκή, neuter μῑμῐκόν); first/second declension
- of or pertaining to mimes or actors
- intended for stage performances
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | μῑμῐκός mīmĭkós |
μῑμῐκή mīmĭkḗ |
μῑμῐκόν mīmĭkón |
μῑμῐκώ mīmĭkṓ |
μῑμῐκᾱ́ mīmĭkā́ |
μῑμῐκώ mīmĭkṓ |
μῑμῐκοί mīmĭkoí |
μῑμῐκαί mīmĭkaí |
μῑμῐκᾰ́ mīmĭkắ | |||||
| Genitive | μῑμῐκοῦ mīmĭkoû |
μῑμῐκῆς mīmĭkês |
μῑμῐκοῦ mīmĭkoû |
μῑμῐκοῖν mīmĭkoîn |
μῑμῐκαῖν mīmĭkaîn |
μῑμῐκοῖν mīmĭkoîn |
μῑμῐκῶν mīmĭkôn |
μῑμῐκῶν mīmĭkôn |
μῑμῐκῶν mīmĭkôn | |||||
| Dative | μῑμῐκῷ mīmĭkōî |
μῑμῐκῇ mīmĭkēî |
μῑμῐκῷ mīmĭkōî |
μῑμῐκοῖν mīmĭkoîn |
μῑμῐκαῖν mīmĭkaîn |
μῑμῐκοῖν mīmĭkoîn |
μῑμῐκοῖς mīmĭkoîs |
μῑμῐκαῖς mīmĭkaîs |
μῑμῐκοῖς mīmĭkoîs | |||||
| Accusative | μῑμῐκόν mīmĭkón |
μῑμῐκήν mīmĭkḗn |
μῑμῐκόν mīmĭkón |
μῑμῐκώ mīmĭkṓ |
μῑμῐκᾱ́ mīmĭkā́ |
μῑμῐκώ mīmĭkṓ |
μῑμῐκούς mīmĭkoús |
μῑμῐκᾱ́ς mīmĭkā́s |
μῑμῐκᾰ́ mīmĭkắ | |||||
| Vocative | μῑμῐκέ mīmĭké |
μῑμῐκή mīmĭkḗ |
μῑμῐκόν mīmĭkón |
μῑμῐκώ mīmĭkṓ |
μῑμῐκᾱ́ mīmĭkā́ |
μῑμῐκώ mīmĭkṓ |
μῑμῐκοί mīmĭkoí |
μῑμῐκαί mīmĭkaí |
μῑμῐκᾰ́ mīmĭkắ | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| μῑμῐκῶς mīmĭkôs |
μῑμῐκώτερος mīmĭkṓteros |
μῑμῐκώτᾰτος mīmĭkṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- → French: mimique
- → Turkish: mimik
- → Latin: mīmicus (see there for further descendants)
- → Macedonian: мимика (mimika)
- → Russian: ми́мика (mímika)
Further reading
- μιμικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- μιμικός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- μιμικός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “μιμικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “μιμικός”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 760