μηδέν (meden)

μηδέν is an Ancient Greek form of μηδείς, meaning “no one, nothing (with μή)”. It is the accusative singular neuter noun.

Found 4,667 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.17.1: … Σικελίᾳ ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐχώρησαν δυνάμεως. οὕτω πανταχόθεν ἡ Ἑλλὰς ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον κατείχετο μήτε κοινῇ φανερὸν μηδὲν κατεργάζεσθαι, κατὰ πόλεις τε ἀτολμοτέρα εἶναι.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.2.63: … ες. ψυχὴν δʼ ἄξονες εὐθὺς ἐς οὐρανὸν ἤγαγον· εὖ γὰρ θῆκε νόμους ἀστοῖς ἄχθεα κουφότατα. Ἀπεφθέγξατο δέ, φασί, Μηδὲν ἄγαν. καὶ αὐτόν φησι Διοσκουρίδης ἐν τοῖς Ἀπομνημονεύμασιν, ἐπειδὴ δακρύοι τὸν παῖδα τελευτήσαντα, ὃν ἡμεῖς ο …

Euripides, Cyclops 285: θεοῦ τὸ πρᾶγμα· μηδέν’ αἰτιῶ βροτῶν.

All forms of μηδείς (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.