A.smile, Ep. Verb, only 3sg. aor. “μείδησε” Il.1.595, 5.426, Od.4.609, Hes.Sc. 115, etc.; part. “μειδήσας, -σασα” Il.1.596, etc.; inf. “μειδῆσαι” h.Cer. 204; μείδησε σαρδάνιον (v. Σαρδάνιος) Od.20.301; opp. γελᾶν, laugh aloud, μειδῆσαι γελάσαι τε h.Cer.l.c.; κάρχαρόν τι μειδήσας grinning so as to show his teeth, Babr.94.6:—pres. is supplied by μειδιάω , used by Hom. only in Ep. part. “μειδιόων” Il.7.212, 23.786; -ιόωσα 21.491: later 3sg. “μειδιάει” h.Hom.10.3, “μειδιᾷ” Theoc.30.5; part. “μειδιάων” h.Hom.7.14, “μειδιῶσα” Ar.Th.513; inf. “μειδιᾶν” Pl.Prm.130a: impf. “ἐμειδία” Luc.DMeretr.3.2; Ep. “μειδιάασκε” PLit.Lond.41, Q.S. 9.117: aor. I “ἐμειδία_σα” Plu.2.172b, Luc.DDeor.20.11; inf. “μειδιᾶσαι” Apollod.1.5.3; part. “μειδιάσας” Pl.Phd.86d; Aeol. fem. -ιάσαισα Sapph.1.14. (Cf. Skt. smáyati, Lett. smaidīt 'smile', etc.)
μειδ-άω ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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