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Μαυσωλεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μαυσωλεῖον Μαυσωλεῖου

Structure: Μαυσωλει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a mausoleum

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Μαυσωλεῖον Μαυσωλείω Μαυσωλεῖα
Genitive Μαυσωλείου Μαυσωλείοιν Μαυσωλείων
Dative Μαυσωλείῳ Μαυσωλείοιν Μαυσωλείοις
Accusative Μαυσωλεῖον Μαυσωλείω Μαυσωλεῖα
Vocative Μαυσωλεῖον Μαυσωλείω Μαυσωλεῖα

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

  • ὁ μὲν δὴ ἐν Ἁλικαρνασσῷ Μαυσώλῳ βασιλεύσαντι Ἁλικαρνασσέων πεποίηται, μέγεθοσ δὲ οὕτω δή τί ἐστι μέγασ καὶ ἐσ κατασκευὴν περίβλεπτοσ τὴν πᾶσαν, ὥστε καὶ Ῥωμαῖοι μεγάλωσ δή τι αὐτὸν θαυμάζοντεσ τὰ παρὰ σφίσιν ἐπιφανῆ μνήματα Μαυσώλεια ὀνομάζουσιν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 16 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mausoleum

Similar forms

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

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