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Μαῖρα?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: Maira

Principal Part: Μαῖρα

Structure: Μαιρ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. the sparkler

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ἠριγόνῃ δὲ τῇ θυγατρὶ τὸν πατέρα μαστευούσῃ κύων συνήθης ὄνομα Μαῖρα, ἣ τῷ Ἰκαρίῳ συνείπετο, τὸν νεκρὸν ἐμήνυσε: (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 7:6)
  • ἔνθα δ ἐήν Κλυμένη Ιἄνειρά τε καὶ Ιἄνασσα Μαῖρα καὶ Ὠρείθυια ἐϋπλόκαμός τ Ἀμάθεια ἄλλαι θ αἳ κατὰ βένθος ἁλὸς Νηρηΐδες ἦσαν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 4:13)
  • τάχα δ ἂν καὶ ἀπόγονος τῆς Ἄτλαντος Μαιρᾶς ἑτέρα Μαιρὰ ἀφίκοιτο ἐς τὴν Μαντινικήν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 12 12:5)
  • Τεγεάτης δὲ καὶ Μαιρὰ τὸ μὲν παραυτίκα Ἀπόλλωνι καὶ Ἀρτέμιδι θύουσιν, ὕστερον δὲ ἐπιλαβούσης ἀκαρπίας ἰσχυρᾶς ἦλθε μάντευμα ἐκ Δελφῶν Σκέφρον θρηνεῖν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 53 3:2)
  • ὑπὲρ τούτους Μαῖρά ἐστιν ἐπὶ πέτρᾳ καθεζομένη: (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 30 9:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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