Timeline for What is Latin (and Greek) for "medium"? (Greek)
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| Jul 16, 2017 at 20:57 | comment | added | Tasos Papastylianou | @TKR I can neither confirm nor deny :) To my knowledge it's at least "katharevousa" Greek. It's also worth noting that the latin word "medium", or even the translation "the means by which", also derive from words implying 'halfness' or 'averageness', implying it's the right translation and has evolved alongside. But, yes, I cannot confirm that the concept of "medium" was expressed by that word in latin / ancient greek times. | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 19:38 | comment | added | TKR | The word certainly existed in ancient Greek, but at least according to LSJ it doesn't seem to have been used in the OP's specific sense. | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 18:23 | comment | added | Tasos Papastylianou | @JoonasIlmavirta to my (personal) knowledge, the word is not necessarily a modern one (except for modern greek dropping the final «ν»). Sources to support this: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BC%CE%AD%CF%83%CE%BF#Greek , foundalis.com/lan/grkn_neu.htm#patt_on | |
| Jul 15, 2017 at 17:56 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | Welcome to the site! Do you know if there is an older variant (classical, Koine, or some such Greek) of that word used similarly? Although not stated explicitly, the question is about older Greek, since modern Greek questions are actually off topic. | |
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| Jul 15, 2017 at 16:56 | history | answered | Tasos Papastylianou | CC BY-SA 3.0 |