Minos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪnɒs/, /ˈmaɪnəs/

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Minos

1. (Greek mythology) The mythological first king of Crete, a son of Zeus by Europa, who imprisoned the Minotaur in a labyrinth and after death was made a judge of the dead in Hades; a putative corresponding historical person.

   Coordinate terms: Aeacus, Rhadamanthus

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, “A Journey from this World to the Next”, in Thomas Roscoe, editor, The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume, Henry G. Bohn, published 1851, page 602:

     At length we arrived at the gate of Elysium. Here was a prodigious crowd of spirits waiting for admittance, some of whom were admitted, and some were rejected; for all were strictly examined by the porter, whom I soon discovered to be the celebrated judge Minos.

   • 1856, Leonhard Schmitz, Connop Thirlwall, A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Destruction of Corinth, 4th edition, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 37:

     That the Cyclades were subject to Minos, is confirmed by numerous traces; and the general belief of the ancients was, that he founded colonies even in Lemnos and Thrace.

   • 2003, Chris Scarre, Rebecca Stefoff, The Palace of Minos at Knossos, Oxford University Press, page 38:

     Whether or not Minos really existed and ruled at Knossos, the ruins on Kephala hill today are known by the name Evans gave them.

• Minoan
• Minotaur

• Minos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Minos (dialogue) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Purported dialogue of Plato concerning law.)

• Simon, omnis, simon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μῑ́νως (Mī́nōs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.noːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.nos]

Mīnōs m sg (genitive Mīnōis); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Minos

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Minos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.