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Μοῖσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μοῖσα

Structure: Μοις (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: aeolic for Mou=sa

Sense

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Μοῖσα Μοίσᾱ Μοῖσαι
Genitive Μοίσης Μοίσαιν Μοισῶν
Dative Μοίσῃ Μοίσαιν Μοίσαις
Accusative Μοῖσαν Μοίσᾱ Μοίσᾱς
Vocative Μοῖσα Μοίσᾱ Μοῖσαι

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

  • τί ἔρδων φίλοσ σοί τε, καρτερόβροντα Κρονίδα, φίλοσ δὲ Μοίσαισ Εὐθυμίᾳ τε μέλων εἰήν, τοῦτ’ αἴτημί σε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 18 2:3)
  • ἐμοὶ μὲν ὦν Μοῖσα καρτερώτατον βέλοσ ἀλκᾷ τρέφει· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 1 30:1)
  • Μοῖσα δ’ οὕτω ποι παρέστα μοι νεοσίγαλον εὑρόντι τρόπον Δωρίῳ φωνὰν ἐναρμόξαι πεδίλῳ ἀγλαόκωμον. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 3 1:2)
  • μελίφθογγοι δ’ ἐπιτρέψοντι Μοῖσαι. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 6 6:1)
  • ἐγγυάσομαι ὔμμιν, ὦ Μοῖσαι, φυγόξενον στρατὸν μηδ’ ἀπείρατον καλῶν, ἀκρόσοφον δὲ καὶ αἰχματὰν ἀφίξεσθαι. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 11 4:2)
  • Μοῖσα, καὶ πὰρ Δεινομένει κελαδῆσαι πίθεό μοι ποινὰν τεθρίππων. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 19:3)
  • αὔξεται καὶ Μοῖσα δι’ ἀγγελίασ ὀρθᾶσ. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 86:3)
  • Μοῖσα δ’ οὐκ ἀποδαμεῖ τρόποισ ἐπὶ σφετέροισι· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 10 12:1)

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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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