Ancient Greek

Noun

μέθοδος • ‎(méthodos) f ‎(genitive μεθόδου); second declension

1. following after, pursuit
2. pursuit of knowledge, investigation, inquiry; hence, treatise
   1. mode of prosecuting such inquiry, method, system, plan
   2. doctrine
   3. “methodic” medicine
   4. (rhetoric) means
      1. means of recognizing
      2. mode of treating the subject-matter
3. trick, ruse, stratagem

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

• Armenian: մեթոդ ‎(metʿod)
• Esperanto: metodo
• Georgian: მეთოდი ‎(metodi)
• Greek: μέθοδος ‎(méthodos)
• Hebrew: מֶתוֹדָה ‎(metóda)
• Italian: metodo
• Latin: methodus (see there for further descendants)
• Russian: ме́тод ‎(métod)

References

• μέθοδος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• μέθοδος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «μέθοδος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • course idem, page 178.
  • method idem, page 527.
  • procedure idem, page 644.
  • process idem, page 644.
  • system idem, page 851.

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek μέθοδος ‎(méthodos).

Noun

μέθοδος • ‎(méthodos) f ‎(plural μέθοδοι)

1. method
2. fashion

Declension

Related terms

• μεθοδολογία f ‎(methodología, “methodology”)