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μηδέτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηδέτερος μηδέτερᾱ μηδέτερον

Structure: μηδετερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. neither of the two, in neither of two ways

Examples

  • ἔπειτ’ ὀλίγων τῶν μεταξὺ γενομένων ἀμοιβαίων καὶ τῶν Μηλίων εἰσ ἐπιεικῆ συγκαταβαινόντων αἱρ́εσιν ὥστε δὲ ἡσυχίαν ἄγοντασ ἡμᾶσ φίλουσ μὲν εἶναι ἀντὶ πολεμίων, ξυμμάχουσ δὲ μηδετέρων οὐκ ἂν δέξαισθε; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 39 2:5)
  • ἀμφοῖν γὰρ ὄντοιν <τῶν> κακῶν καὶ φευκτὰ ἔδει ἄμφω εἶναι, τῶν μηδετέρων δὲ μηδέτερον ἢ ὁμοίωσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 19:1)

Synonyms

  1. neither of the two

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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