Ancient Greek

Pronoun

μηδείς • ‎(mēdeís)

1. and not one
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.500
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 395
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.4.20
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 303.C
   1. (not elided)
      • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 37
      • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 414.D
      • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Parmenides 156.C
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 245.D
      • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 553.D
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 171.C
      • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 222.D
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, First Alcibiades 122.A
2. nobody, naught, good for naught
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 918
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1114
   • 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 234
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.3.20
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.32
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.137
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1000
   • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 622
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.106
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1166
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Women of Trachis 1107
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1275
   • 424 BCE, Euripides, Hecuba 843
   • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 180.A
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, A Professor of Public Speaking 2
3. (neuter, adverbial) not at all, by no means
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 72
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 344
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, The Statesman 280.A
   • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 949
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 280
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1329
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Demonicus 16

Inflection

Synonyms

• οὐδείς ‎(oudeís)

References

• μηδείς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μηδείς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μηδείς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «μηδείς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• μηδείς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3367”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • no idem, page 559.
  • nobody idem, page 559.
  • none idem, page 560.