μίμησις
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /mǐː.mɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈmi.me̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈmi.mi.sis/
Noun
[edit]Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ hē mī́mēsis |
tṑ mīmḗsei |
hai mīmḗseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | tês mīmḗseōs |
toîn mīmēséoin |
tôn mīmḗseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | têi mīmḗsei |
toîn mīmēséoin |
taîs mīmḗsesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | tḕn mī́mēsin |
tṑ mīmḗsei |
tā̀s mīmḗseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | mī́mēsi |
mīmḗsei |
mīmḗseis | ||||||||||
Notes: |
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Derived terms
[edit]- ἀπομῑ́μησις (apomī́mēsis)
μ ῑμητικός (mīmētikós)
Descendants
[edit]- → Late Latin: mīmesis (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
[edit]- “μίμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μίμησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μίμησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- imitation idem, page 417.
- mimicry idem, page 529.
- reproduction idem, page 699.