Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τῶν δ’ ἄλλων αὐτοῦ νόμων ἴδιοσ μὲν μάλιστα καὶ παράδοξοσ ὁ κελεύων ἄτιμον εἶναι τὸν ἐν στάσει μηδετέρασ μερίδοσ γενόμενον. (Plutarch, , chapter 20 1:1)
  • καὶ πῶσ ἂν εἰή τοῦτο, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, μηδετέρασ πεπονθυίασ τι τῶν ὄντων ὁτιοῦν, ἔπειτα τοῦτο τὸ πάθοσ, ὃ μηδετέρα πέπονθεν, ἀμφοτέρασ πεπονθέναι; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 116:5)

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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