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ἡμιμέδιμνον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιμέδιμνον ἡμιμέδιμνου

Structure: ἡμιμεδιμν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a half-

Declension

Second 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

  • ἐνίοτε δὲ ἡ μὲν ἔννοια ἀφελήσ ἐστιν, ἡ δὲ ἀπαγγελία πολιτική, ὡσ καὶ ἐν τῷ πρὸσ Καλλικλέα ὁ Δημοσθένησ, κριθῶν μὲν βρεχθῆναι, καὶ ξηραινομένουσ ἰδεῖν αὐτὴν μηδὲ τρεῖσ μεδίμνουσ, ἀλεύρων δὲ ὡσ ἡμιμέδιμνον· (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , chapter 13 6:18)
  • ἦ μὴν ὁρᾶν καὶ τῆσ τούτων μητρὸσ ἀκούειν ἔφη, κριθῶν μὲν βρεχθῆναι, καὶ ξηραινομένουσ ἰδεῖν αὑτήν, μηδὲ τρεῖσ μεδίμνουσ, ἀλεύρων δ’ ὡσ ἡμιμέδιμνον· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 30:2)

Synonyms

  1. a half-

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

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