μηδείς, μηδεμίᾰ, μηδέν
(i.e. μηδὲ εἷς, μηδὲ μία, μηδὲ ἕν): feminine μηδὲ ἴα or μηδεΐα (or -έϊα) [[ “IG” 12(2).6.12 (Mytil.)] Refs]:— not one, not even one, nobody (in neuter nothing), once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (who elsewhere uses μή τις, see at {μήτις}), ἀναίνετο μηδὲν ἑλέσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.500; μή πως.. μηδὲν ἀνύσσῃς 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 395; μηδὲν ἄγαν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 216, etc.: rare in _plural_ (μηδαμοί being used in _Ionic dialect_), μηδένες ἄλλοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.20; μηδένας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 303c. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 μηδὲ εἷς (so written) is found in Attic dialect Inscrr., as [[ “IG” 12.114.41, 22.487.9 (μηδ᾽ hενί [prev. work]12.73.6), but is used especially in an emphatic sense, ] Refs]not even one, μηδὲ ἕν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently with an intervening Particle or preposition, μηδ᾽ ἂν ἕνα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 414d; μηδ᾽ ἐν ἑνὶ χρόνῳ [prev. author] “Prm.” 156c; μηδ᾽ ἐξ ἑνός [prev. author] “Phdr.” 245d; μηδ᾽ ἐφ᾽ ἑνί [prev. author] “R.” 553d; μηδὲ περὶ ἑνός [prev. author] “Tht.” 171c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηδ᾽ ὑφ᾽ ἑνός, μηδ᾽ ὑπὸ μιᾶς, [[ [prev. author] “Smp.” 222d, Alcaeus1.122a; μηδὲ ὑφ᾽ ἑνός “IG” 12.32.8. ] Refs]
__II nobody, naught, good for naught, κἄμ᾽ ἴσον τῷ μ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 918: _plural_, οὐ γὰρ ἠξίου τοὺς μηδένας [prev. author] “Aj.” 1114 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μηδέν or τὸ μηδέν as substantive, naught, nothing, κεἰ τὸ μ. ἐξερῶ [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 234 ] Refs]; μ. λέγειν to say what is naught, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.3.20, etc.; ἡ ἡμετέρη εὐδαιμονίη.. ἀπέρριπται ἐς τὸ μ. 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32; τοῦ μηδενὸς ἀξίη [prev. author] 6.137; ἐπὶ μηδὲν ἔρχεσθαι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1000; ἐς τὸ μ. ἥκειν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 622 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of persons, τὸ μ. a good-for-nothing, τὸ μ. εἶναι, of a eunuch, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.106; τοιγὰρ σὺ δέξαι μ᾽ ἐς τὸ σὸν στέγος, τὴν μηδὲν ἐς τὸ μ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1166; κἂν τὸ μ. ὦ [prev. author] “Tr.” 1107; τὸ μ. ὄντας [prev. author] “Aj.” 1275; ὁ μ. ὤν [prev. work] 767; ὅτ᾽ οὐδὲν ὢν τοῦ μηδὲν ἀντέστης ὕπερ [prev. work] 1231, compare 1094, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 843, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἧττον αὐτοῖς ἔνι ἢ τὸ μ., i.e. it is a mere impossibility, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 180a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also μ. εἶναι without the Article, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]