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|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[girl]] (Com.), late also m. [[boy]] (Aret., Hld.).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">φιλο-μεῖραξ</b> m. f. <b class="b2">loving boys</b> (Ath., Paus.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut. : 1. <b class="b3">μειράκιον</b> n. <b class="b2">youth, younger man</b> (Hp., Att.) with <b class="b3">μειρακι-ώδης</b> [[youthful]] (Pl., Arist.), <b class="b3">-όομαι</b> <b class="b2">become adolescent</b> (X., Ph., Ael.), <b class="b3">-εύομαι</b> <b class="b2">id., behave as a youth</b> (Arr., Plu., Luc.), also <b class="b3">μειρακ-εύομαι</b> (Alciphr. 2, 2). 2. <b class="b3">μειρακίσκος</b> m., also <b class="b3">-η</b> f. [[boy]], [[girl]] (Att.; Chantraine Form. 409). 3. <b class="b3">μειρακύλλιον</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Com.; cf. Leumann Glotta 32, 215 a. 225 = Kl. Schr. 242 u. 250).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [738] <b class="b2">*meri̯o-</b> <b class="b2">young (girl or man)</b><br />Etymology: On the fem. gender cf. <b class="b3">δέλφαξ</b>, <b class="b3">πόρταξ</b>, <b class="b3">σκύλαξ</b> (also m.). We must start from a noun, perh. <b class="b3">*μεῖρος</b> (cf. <b class="b3">λίθαξ</b> : <b class="b3">λίθος</b> a. o.), which agrees with Skt. <b class="b2">márya-</b> m. [[youth]], [[lover]], Av. <b class="b2">mairya-</b> (meaning unclear); and, with thematic <b class="b2">k-</b>suffix (independent of <b class="b3">μεῖραξ</b> [[pace]] Wackernagel-Debrunner II: 2, 540, Chantraine Études 160 m. A.1?), <b class="b2">marya-ká-</b> <b class="b2">small man</b>. The diminutive derivv. in Greek ousted the basic word. A fem. <b class="b3">*μεῖρα</b> (like <b class="b3">στεῖρα</b>) may be also considered. -- As remote cognates are adduced Lith. <b class="b2">mergà</b> [[girl]] and, with diff. vowel, Alb. <b class="b2">shemërë</b> f. <b class="b2">by-wife</b> (from <b class="b2">*sm̥-m<sub>e</sub>rī</b>), Lith. <b class="b2">martì</b> f. <b class="b2">bride, young woman</b> (cf. <b class="b3">Βριτό-μαρτις</b>? s. v.); further still the unclear Lat. [[marītus]] <b class="b2">with wife, spouse</b>, s. W.-Hofmann s. v. Further details also in WP. 2, 281, Pok. 738f.; Fraenkel Wb. s. <b class="b2">martì</b> and <b class="b2">mergà</b>. Several hypotheses on the formation by Specht Ursprung 124, 148 a. 210.
|etymtx=Grammatical information: f.<br />Meaning: [[girl]] (Com.), late also m. [[boy]] (Aret., Hld.).<br />Compounds: <b class="b3">φιλο-μεῖραξ</b> m. f. <b class="b2">loving boys</b> (Ath., Paus.).<br />Derivatives: Diminut. : 1. <b class="b3">μειράκιον</b> n. <b class="b2">youth, younger man</b> (Hp., Att.) with <b class="b3">μειρακι-ώδης</b> [[youthful]] (Pl., Arist.), <b class="b3">-όομαι</b> <b class="b2">become adolescent</b> (X., Ph., Ael.), <b class="b3">-εύομαι</b> <b class="b2">id., behave as a youth</b> (Arr., Plu., Luc.), also <b class="b3">μειρακ-εύομαι</b> (Alciphr. 2, 2). 2. <b class="b3">μειρακίσκος</b> m., also <b class="b3">-η</b> f. [[boy]], [[girl]] (Att.; Chantraine Form. 409). 3. <b class="b3">μειρακύλλιον</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Com.; cf. Leumann Glotta 32, 215 a. 225 = Kl. Schr. 242 u. 250).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [738] <b class="b2">*meri̯o-</b> <b class="b2">young (girl or man)</b><br />Etymology: On the fem. gender cf. <b class="b3">δέλφαξ</b>, <b class="b3">πόρταξ</b>, <b class="b3">σκύλαξ</b> (also m.). We must start from a noun, perh. <b class="b3">*μεῖρος</b> (cf. <b class="b3">λίθαξ</b> : <b class="b3">λίθος</b> a. o.), which agrees with Skt. <b class="b2">márya-</b> m. [[youth]], [[lover]], Av. <b class="b2">mairya-</b> (meaning unclear); and, with thematic <b class="b2">k-</b>suffix (independent of <b class="b3">μεῖραξ</b> [[pace]] Wackernagel-Debrunner II: 2, 540, Chantraine Études 160 m. A.1?), <b class="b2">marya-ká-</b> <b class="b2">small man</b>. The diminutive derivv. in Greek ousted the basic word. A fem. <b class="b3">*μεῖρα</b> (like <b class="b3">στεῖρα</b>) may be also considered. -- As remote cognates are adduced Lith. <b class="b2">mergà</b> [[girl]] and, with diff. vowel, Alb. <b class="b2">shemërë</b> f. <b class="b2">by-wife</b> (from <b class="b2">*sm̥-m<sub>e</sub>rī</b>), Lith. <b class="b2">martì</b> f. <b class="b2">bride, young woman</b> (cf. <b class="b3">Βριτό-μαρτις</b>? s. v.); further still the unclear Lat. [[marītus]] <b class="b2">with wife, spouse</b>, s. W.-Hofmann s. v. Further details also in WP. 2, 281, Pok. 738f.; Fraenkel Wb. s. <b class="b2">martì</b> and <b class="b2">mergà</b>. Several hypotheses on the formation by Specht Ursprung 124, 148 a. 210.
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English (LSJ)

ᾰκος, ἡ,

   A young girl, lass (cf. Phryn.187), Cratin.301, Ar. Th.410, Ec.611, Pl.1071, 1079, Xenarch.4.3, Men.Pk.14: used as fem. of men, qui muliebria patiuntur, Cratin.55, Luc.Sol.5: in later writers masc., boy, lad, Herod.Med. in Rh.Mus.58.109, Aret.SD 1.13, Hld.4.19. (Cf. Skt. maryakás 'manikin', máryas 'young man'.)

German (Pape)

[Seite 116] ακος, ὁ u. ἡ (vgl. εἴρην?), Knabe, Mädchen, nach den Atticisten nur von Mädchen zu sagen, μειράκιον von Knaben, vgl. Phryn. 212 u. Lob. dazu; u. so braucht es Ar. Ran. 410 u. öfter, u. a. Comic., die auch im obscönen Sinne den, qui muliebria patitur, ὁ μεῖραξ nennen, vgl. Lob. a. a. O.; auch Sp. von Mädchen, wie Luc. Asin. 52, vgl. Soloec. 5.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

μεῖραξ: -ᾰκος, ἡ, κοράσιον, νεᾶνις, (μειράκιον, μειρακίσκος, μειρακύλλιον, ἐπὶ ἀρρένων, Φρύν. 212, Ἀμμών., κλ.), Κρατῖν. ἐν Ἀδήλ. 9, Ἀριστοφ. ἐν Θεσμ. 410, Πλ. 1071, 1079, Ἐκκλ. 611, 696, 1138, Ξέναρχος ἐν «Πεντάθλῳ» 1. 3· μείρακες κεῖται (ὡς θηλ. πάλιν) ἐπὶ ἀνδρῶν ἢ νέων, γυναικώδης, κίναιδος, Κρατῖν. ἐν «Δραπέτ.» 6, Λουκ. ἐν Ψευδοσοφ. ἢ Σολοικιστ. 5· ἀλλὰ παρὰ μεταγεν. ἐν χρήσει ἀκριβῶς ὡς τὸ μειράκιον, «παλληκαράκι», Λοβ. ἔνθ’ ἀνωτ. (Πρβλ. Σανσκρ. maryak-as (homuncio), ἐκ τοῦ maryas (homo, adolescens).)

French (Bailly abrégé)

ακος (ὁ, ἡ)
jeune garçon, jeune fille.
Étymologie: cf. skr. marjakas « petit homme », de marjas « jeune homme ».

Greek Monolingual

ο (ΑM μεῑραξ, -ακος)
μειράκιο, νεαρός, παλικαράκι, έφηβος
αρχ.
1. κορίτσι, κοπέλα
2. (για άνδρα) γυναικωτός, κίναιδος, θηλυπρεπής.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Λ. της αρχαίας προφορικής γλώσσας (ΙΕ ρίζα merįo- «νέος άντρας»), παράγωγο σε -αξ (πρβλ. δέλφ-αξ, πόρτ-αξ) πιθ. ενός αμάρτυρου θεματικού ονόματος μεῖρος ή μεῖρα (πρβλ. αρχ. ινδ. marya- «νέος άντρας, αγαπητός», αβεστ. mairya), ο οποίος αντικαταστάθηκε από τον πιο εκφραστικό τ. μεῖραξ (πρβλ. λίθαξ < λίθος). Υπάρχουν αμφιβολίες αν ο αρχ. ινδ. τ. σε -ka-, maryakά-, συνδέεται με τον μεῖραξ. Ο τ. επίσης συνδέεται πιθ. με ιραν. mairya- «νέος άντρας», αρχ. περσ. marīka «υπήκοος», λιθουαν. merga «μικρό κορίτσι» και ίσως με λατ. maritus «άνδρας, σύζυγος».
ΠΑΡ. μειράκιο
αρχ.
μειρακικός, μειράκιος, μειρακίσκος, μειρακύλλιον αρχ.-μσν. μειρακίζω.
ΣΥΝΘ. (Α' συνθετικό) αρχ. μειρακοειδής. (Β συνθετικό) αρχ. συμμείραξ, φιλομείραξ].

Greek Monotonic

μεῖραξ: -ᾰκος, ἡ, νεαρό κορίτσι, κοπελίτσα (το μειράκιον χρησιμ. για τ' αγόρια), σε Αριστοφ. κ.λπ.

Russian (Dvoretsky)

μεῖραξ: ᾰκος ὁ отрок, юноша, подросток, но преимущ. ἡ девочка (лет 14-15) Arph., Luc.

Frisk Etymological English

Grammatical information: f.
Meaning: girl (Com.), late also m. boy (Aret., Hld.).
Compounds: φιλο-μεῖραξ m. f. loving boys (Ath., Paus.).
Derivatives: Diminut. : 1. μειράκιον n. youth, younger man (Hp., Att.) with μειρακι-ώδης youthful (Pl., Arist.), -όομαι become adolescent (X., Ph., Ael.), -εύομαι id., behave as a youth (Arr., Plu., Luc.), also μειρακ-εύομαι (Alciphr. 2, 2). 2. μειρακίσκος m., also f. boy, girl (Att.; Chantraine Form. 409). 3. μειρακύλλιον id. (Com.; cf. Leumann Glotta 32, 215 a. 225 = Kl. Schr. 242 u. 250).
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [738] *meri̯o- young (girl or man)
Etymology: On the fem. gender cf. δέλφαξ, πόρταξ, σκύλαξ (also m.). We must start from a noun, perh. *μεῖρος (cf. λίθαξ : λίθος a. o.), which agrees with Skt. márya- m. youth, lover, Av. mairya- (meaning unclear); and, with thematic k-suffix (independent of μεῖραξ pace Wackernagel-Debrunner II: 2, 540, Chantraine Études 160 m. A.1?), marya-ká- small man. The diminutive derivv. in Greek ousted the basic word. A fem. *μεῖρα (like στεῖρα) may be also considered. -- As remote cognates are adduced Lith. mergà girl and, with diff. vowel, Alb. shemërë f. by-wife (from *sm̥-me), Lith. martì f. bride, young woman (cf. Βριτό-μαρτις? s. v.); further still the unclear Lat. marītus with wife, spouse, s. W.-Hofmann s. v. Further details also in WP. 2, 281, Pok. 738f.; Fraenkel Wb. s. martì and mergà. Several hypotheses on the formation by Specht Ursprung 124, 148 a. 210.

Middle Liddell

!μεῖραξ, ακος,
a young girl, lass, (μειράκιον being used of boys), Ar., etc.