Included with:
μείς, μηνός, ὁ,
nominative singular μείς [
Refs 8th c.BC+];
Doric dialect μής [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; Elean
μεύς [
Refs]:
nominative singular μήν [
LXX+8th c.BC+]; both μείς and
μήν in [
Refs 4th c.BC+]: oblique cases formed from stem
μην-,
Aeolic dialect μηνν- [
Refs], Thess.
μεινν- [
Refs];
dative plural μησί [
Refs 5th c.BC+]:—
month, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; μηνὸς τετάρτῃ φθίνοντος on the fourth day
from the end of
the month, Foed. cited in [same work][
Refs]; Μαιμακτηριῶνος δεκάτῃ ἀπιόντος, i.e. on the 21st, Decrees cited in [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; μηνῶν φθινὰς ἁμέρα the last of the
month, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τελευτῶντος τοῦ μηνός at the end of
the lunar month (when there was no moon-light), [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκείνου τοῦ μηνός
in the course of, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ μῆνα
monthly, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ μῆνα ἕκαστον, κατὰ μῆνας, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκάστου μηνός[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ μηνός alone,
by the month, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τόκον δραχμὴν τοῦ μ. τῆς μνᾶς interest a drachma per mina
per month, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; μ. πλήρης, κοῖλος, civil
month of 30 or 29 days respectively, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; μ. ἐμβόλιμος intercalary
month, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2)
crescent moon, Thphr. [prev. cited] (μείς);
the part of the month corresponding to a phase of the moon, [
Refs];
the visible part of the moon, Chrysipp. [prev. cited] (μείς).
3)
ornament in form of crescent moon, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
3.b) ={μηνίσκος} 1, probably in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II) as
proper name, the god [
Refs 5th c.BC+] stem
mēns- 'moon', 'month', cf. Latin
mensis,
genitive plural mensum, etc.)