μεσίτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

μέσος (mésos) +‎ -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

μεσῑ́της • (mesī́tēs) m (genitive μεσῑ́του); first declension

  1. mediator, umpire, arbitrator

Declension

First declension of ὁ μεσῑ́της; τοῦ μεσῑ́του (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ μεσῑ́της
ho mesī́tēs 		τὼ μεσῑ́τᾱ
tṑ mesī́tā 		οἱ μεσῖται
hoi mesîtai
Genitive τοῦ μεσῑ́του
toû mesī́tou 		τοῖν μεσῑ́ταιν
toîn mesī́tain 		τῶν μεσῑτῶν
tôn mesītôn
Dative τῷ μεσῑ́τῃ
tōî mesī́tēi 		τοῖν μεσῑ́ταιν
toîn mesī́tain 		τοῖς μεσῑ́ταις
toîs mesī́tais
Accusative τὸν μεσῑ́την
tòn mesī́tēn 		τὼ μεσῑ́τᾱ
tṑ mesī́tā 		τοὺς μεσῑ́τᾱς
toùs mesī́tās
Vocative μεσῖτᾰ
mesîtă 		μεσῑ́τᾱ
mesī́tā 		μεσῖται
mesîtai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • → Greek: μεσίτης (mesítis)

Further reading

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek μεσίτης (mesítēs, “mediator”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈsitis/

Noun

μεσίτης • (mesítis) m (plural μεσίτες, feminine μεσίτρια)

  1. broker, mediator

Declension

Declension of μεσίτης
singular plural
nominative μεσίτης (mesítis) μεσίτες (mesítes)
genitive μεσίτη (mesíti) μεσιτών (mesitón)
accusative μεσίτη (mesíti) μεσίτες (mesítes)
vocative μεσίτη (mesíti) μεσίτες (mesítes)

Derived terms

  • μεσιτεία f (mesiteía, “mediation”)
  • μεσιτικός (mesitikós, “mediative”)
  • μεσιτεύω (mesitévo, “mediate”)

References

  1. ^ μεσίτης, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

Further reading

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