μέσαι (mesai)

μέσαι is an Ancient Greek form of μέσος, meaning “middle, in the middle”.

It can also be a form of μέσης, “middle (see μέσος)”.

It can also be a form of μέση, “middle”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Xenophon, Anabasis 3.1.33: ἐπεὶ δὲ πάντες συνῆλθον, εἰς τὸ πρόσθεν τῶν ὅπλων ἐκαθέζοντο· καὶ ἐγένοντο οἱ συνελθόντες στρατηγοὶ καὶ λοχαγοὶ ἀμφὶ τοὺς ἑκατόν. ὅτε δὲ ταῦτα ἦν σχεδὸν μέσαι ἦσαν νύκτες.

All forms of μέσος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.