μέσος: Difference between revisions

|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">(being) in the middle, middle</b>, of space, sime etc., <b class="b3">τὸ μέσον</b> [[the middle]] (Il.). Forms of somp.: <b class="b3">μεσαί-τερος</b>, <b class="b3">-τατος</b> (IA.; after <b class="b3">παλαίτερος</b> a.o.; Schwyzer 632), <b class="b3">μέσ(σ)ατος</b> (Il., Ar.; after <b class="b3">ἔσχατος</b> etc.), <b class="b3">μεσσάτιος</b> (Call.; like <b class="b3">ἐσχάτιος</b>), <b class="b3">μεσάτιον</b> name of a strap (Poll.; vgl. <b class="b3">μέσαβον</b>); <b class="b3">μεσσότατος</b> (A. R., Man.).<br />Other forms: Aeol. <b class="b3">μέσσος</b>, Cret. Boeot. <b class="b3">μέττος</b>.<br />Compounds: Very often as 1. member, e.g. <b class="b3">μεσό-δμη</b>, <b class="b3">μεσ-ημβρία</b> (s. vv.); also <b class="b3">μεσαι-πόλιος</b> [[halfgrey]], [[growing grey]] (Ν 361; cf. e.g. <b class="b3">μεσό-λευκος</b>) like <b class="b3">μεσαί-τερος</b> not locatival, but metr. conditioned (Schwyzer 448).<br />Derivatives: Also adjectives, partly stilistically formally enlarged, partly from (<b class="b3">τὸ</b>) <b class="b3">μέσον</b>: 1. <b class="b3">μεσήεις</b> = <b class="b3">μέσος</b> (M269; metr. enlargement at verse-end (after <b class="b3">τιμήεις</b>, <b class="b3">τελήεις</b>?), Risch $56e; see Debrunner <b class="b3">Ἀντίδωρον</b> 28 f. 2. <b class="b3">μεσ(σ)ήρης</b> = <b class="b3">μέσος</b> (E., Eratosth.; after <b class="b3">ποδήρης</b> a. o.). 3. <b class="b3">μεσαῖος</b> = <b class="b3">μέσος</b> (Antiph.; as <b class="b3">τελευταῖος</b>). 4. <b class="b3">μεσάδιος</b> [[central]] (Aeol. acc. to sch. D.T.; after <b class="b3">διχθάδιος</b> a. o., cf. also <b class="b3">μεσάζω</b>). 5. <b class="b3">μεσίδιος</b> <b class="b2">in the middle, equal</b> (Arist.); <b class="b3">μεσίδιον</b> n. [[at a mediator deposed property]] with <b class="b3">-ιόω</b> [[make a deposite]] (pap., inscr.). -- 6. <b class="b3">μεσίτης</b> m. [[mediator]], [[arbiter]] (Redard 25 f., 260 n. 1) with <b class="b3">-ιτεύω</b> 'be a <b class="b3">μ</b>., balance', also [[pawn]] (Plb., pap., NT), <b class="b3">-ιτεία</b> [[mediation]], [[settlement]], [[pawning]] (J., pap.). 7. <b class="b3">μέσης</b> m. [[wind between ἀπαρκτίας and καικίας]] (Arist.; Schwyzer 461, Chantraine Form. 31), also <b class="b3">μεσεύς</b> = <b class="b3">καικίας</b> (Steph. in Hp.). -- 8. <b class="b3">μεσότης</b>, <b class="b3">-ητος</b> f. [[middle]], [[mediocre]], [[moderation]] (Pl., Arist.). -- 9. <b class="b3">μεσακόθεν</b> adv. [[among]], [[between]] (Arcad. IVa), < <b class="b3">-αχόθεν</b> after <b class="b3">πανταχόθεν</b> (Thurneysen Glotta 12, 146, Schwyzer 630); not with Bechtel Gött. Nachr. 1920, 244 to Goth. <b class="b2">*midjunga</b> in [[midjun]][[[ga]]][[gards]]. -- Denomin. verbs: 1. <b class="b3">μεσόω</b> <b class="b2">form the middle, be in ...</b> (IA.); 2. <b class="b3">μεσεύω</b> <b class="b2">keep the mean, be neutral</b> (Pl. Lg., X., Arist.); 3. <b class="b3">μεσάζω</b> = <b class="b3">μεσόω</b> (LXX, D.S.). -- On <b class="b3">μεσ(σ)ηγύς</b> s. v.<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [706] <b class="b2">*medʰi̯o-</b> [[middle]]<br />Etymology: Old local adj., identical with Skt. <b class="b2">mádhya-</b>, Lat. [[medius]], Germ., e.g. Goth. [[midjis]], OHG [[mitti]] , IE <b class="b2">*médhi̯os</b> [[in the middle]]. More forms from several other languages in WP. 2, 261, Pok. 706f., W.-Hofmann s. [[medius]], Mayrhofer s. <b class="b2">mádhyaḥ</b>, Feist Vgl. Wb. s. [[midjis]], Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">mẽdis</b>, Vasmer Russ. et. Wb. s. <b class="b2">mežá</b>. Supposition on the prehistory (adjectiv. of an adverb <b class="b2">*médhi</b>?; cf. <b class="b3">μετά</b>) also in Schwyzer 461 a. 627.