μετά
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- μεθ’ (meth’) — apocopic, before rough breathing
- μετ’ (met’) — apocopic, before smooth breathing
- μέτα (méta) — paroxytone
- πεδᾰ́ (pedá) — Aeolic, Arcadocypriot, Doric
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀕𐀲 (me-ta); further derivation is uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂, with the first part from *me (“with”), in which case cognates include Proto-Germanic *midi and Albanian mjet and Albanian me. See also μέχρι (mékhri, “until”) and μέσος (mésos, “middle”).
The genitive is an innovated Greek associative. The dative is from the PIE locative. The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /me.tá/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /meˈta/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /meˈta/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /meˈta/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /meˈta/
Preposition[edit]
μετᾰ́ • (metá) (governs the genitive, dative, and accusative)
- [+genitive]
- (only in poetry, usually Epic) [+dative]
- [+accusative]
Adverb[edit]
μετᾰ́ • (metá)
- among them, with them
- afterwards
- thereafter
Derived terms[edit]
- μετᾰ- (meta-)
Descendants[edit]
- ⇒ Greek: με (me)
Further reading[edit]
- “μετά”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “μετά”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “μετά”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- μετά in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- μετά in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “μετά”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3326 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- μετά in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
μετά • (metá)
- afterwards, later
- Θα το συζητήσουμε μετά. ― Tha to syzitísoume metá. ― We will discuss it later.
- (with από and accusative): after
- Μετά από πέντε λεπτά, ήρθε το λεωφορείο. ― Metá apó pénte leptá, írthe to leoforeío. ― After five minutes the bus came.
Conjunction[edit]
μετά • (metá)
- so, therefore (for consecutive statements)
- Μας έχει ξεγελάσει τόσες φορές. Μετά, πώς να του έχουμε εμπιστοσύνη;
- Mas échei xegelásei tóses forés. Metá, pós na tou échoume empistosýni?
- We have been deceived so often. So how can we have confidence in him?
Preposition[edit]
μετά • (metá)
- after [+accusative]
- Μετά το δείπνο, έπεσα για ύπνο. ― Metá to deípno, épesa gia ýpno. ― After dinner I went to sleep.
- Το γράμμα βήτα έρχεται μετά το άλφα. ― To grámma víta érchetai metá to álfa. ― The letter beta comes after alpha.
- with (accompanying) [+genitive]
- Ήλθε μετά της συζύγου του. ― Ílthe metá tis syzýgou tou. ― He came with his wife
- with (manner) [+genitive]
- μετά τιμής ― metá timís ― yours sincerely (literally, “with honour”)
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