Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

Μαῖρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μαῖρα

Structure: Μαιρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: marmai/rw

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

  • "Μαῖράν τε Κλυμένην τε ἴδον στυγερήν τ’ Ἐριφύλην, ἣ χρυσὸν φίλου ἀνδρὸσ ἐδέξατο τιμήεντα. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 40:1)
  • Τεγεάταισ γὰρ τοῦ λόγου τὸ εἰκὸσ καὶ οὐ Μαντινεῦσιν ἕπεται, Μαιρὰν τὴν Ἄτλαντοσ παρὰ σφίσι ταφῆναι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 12 12:4)
  • θυγατέρα Ἄτλαντόσ φασιν εἶναι τὴν Μαιράν, ἧσ δὴ καὶ Ὅμηροσ ἐποιήσατο μνήμην ἐν Ὀδυσσέωσ λόγοισ πρὸσ Ἀλκίνουν περί τε ὁδοῦ τῆσ ἐσ Αἵδην καὶ ὁπόσων ἐθεάσατο ἐκεῖ τὰσ ψυχάσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 48 10:1)

Related

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

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