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Μοῦσα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μοῦσα Μοῦσης

Structure: Μους (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: Ma/w

Sense

  1. the Muse, the Muses
  2. music, song, eloquence, arts, accomplishments

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Μοῦσα Μούσᾱ Μοῦσαι
Genitive Μούσης Μούσαιν Μουσῶν
Dative Μούσῃ Μούσαιν Μούσαις
Accusative Μοῦσαν Μούσᾱ Μούσᾱς
Vocative Μοῦσα Μούσᾱ Μοῦσαι

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

  • θεόσ, ὦ Τροία, θεόσ, αὐτὸσ Ἄρησ ὁ Στρυμόνιοσ πῶλοσ ἀοιδοῦ Μούσησ ἥκων καταπνεῖ σε. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, anapests4)
  • καὶ νῦν ἐπ’ εὐτυχοῦντι Τρωικῷ στρατῷ ἥκω πορεύουσ’ ἄνδρα σοι μέγαν φίλον, τῆσ ὑμνοποιοῦ παῖδα Θρῄκιον θεᾶσ Μούσησ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 2:7)
  • ὦ χρυσοδαίδαλτον ἐμὸν μέλημα, Κύπριδοσ ἔρνοσ, μέλιττα Μούσησ, Χαρίτων θρέμμα, Τρυφῆσ πρόσωπον, ἄνοιξον ἀσπάζου με· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 21)
  • ὑμεῖσ δ’ ἡμῖν προσέχετε τὸν νοῦν τοῖσ ἀναπαίστοισ, ὦ παντοίασ ἤδη Μούσησ πειραθέντεσ καθ’ ἑαυτούσ. (Aristotle, Parabasis, prelude3)
  • ἀλλὰ χρὴ θεᾶσ Μούσησ ἀνοίγειν ἱερὸν εὔφημον στόμα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode6)
  • τὸν μὲν ἐγὼ Μούσῃσ Ἑλικωνιάδεσσ’ ἀνέθηκα, ἔνθα με τὸ πρῶτον λιγυρῆσ ἐπέβησαν ἀοιδῆσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 72:6)

Synonyms

  1. the Muse

Related

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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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