Menos (μένος · ménos · noun ) "mind; courage; spirit"

Menos (signs: μένος · transliteration: ménos) is a word in the Ancient Greek language related to psycholinguistics. It is usually translated as "(noun) mind; courage; spirit." The Ancient Greek language belongs to the language family known as Indo-European.

Menos may be derived from *ménos, which is a reconstructed word from the proto-language called Proto-Indo-European.

Other definition sources for "Menos"

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Source
μένος
Beekes, EDG, 930–931. Read on OMNIKA

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Citation

MLA 8

PsychLing Contributors. "Menos." PsychLing, OMNIKA Foundation, 3 Sep. 2023, psylng.org/mli/indo/grc/menos. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

APA 6

PsychLing (2023, September 3). Menos. Retrieved from https://psylng.org/mli/indo/grc/menos

CMS 16

PsychLing Contributors. "Menos." Las Vegas, NV: OMNIKA Foundation. Created September 3, 2023. Modified September 7, 2023. Accessed December 21, 2024. https://psylng.org/mli/indo/grc/menos.

Bibliography

HDSC

Autenrieth, Georg. A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges: Based Upon the German of Dr. Georg Autenrieth. Edited by Isaac G. Flagg. Translated by Robert P. Keep. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1891.

EDG

Beekes, Robert S. P., and Lucien van Beek. Etymological Dictionary of Greek. 2 vols. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2010.

GHL

Campbell, Lyle R., and Mauricio J. Mixco, eds. A Glossary of Historical Linguistics. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Hopper

Crane, Gregory R. "Perseus Hopper." Department of Classical Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Created 1985. Accessed July 30, 2023. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper. [Visit]

DLP

Crystal, David, ed. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2011.

WM

Internet Archive Contributors. "Wayback Machine." San Francisco, CA: Internet Archive. Created October 24, 2001. Accessed July 21, 2023. https://web.archive.org. [Visit]

Middle Liddell

Liddell, Henry G., and Robert Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon: Founded Upon the Seventh Edition of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1889.

OI PIE

Mallory, James P., and Douglas Q. Adams. The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2006.

BDAG

Montanari, Franco, ed. The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2015.

Wiktionary

Wales, Jimmy D., et al. "Wiktionary: The Free Dictionary." San Francisco, CA: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Created December 12, 2002. Accessed July 28, 2023. https://wiktionary.org. [Visit]

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