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μαινίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαινίς μαινίδος

Structure: μαινιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mai/nh의 지소사,

Sense

  1. a sprat

Declension

Third 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

  • "καὶ πάλιν μαινίδεσ , σκόμβροι, κοχλίαι, κορακῖνοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52148)
  • καὶ Ἀντιφάνησ δ’ ἐν Προβατεῖ φησιν Βοιώτιαι μὲν ἐγχέλεισ, μῦσ Ποντικοί, θύννοι γλαῦκοι Μεγαρικοί, μαινίδεσ Καρύστιαι, φάγροι δ’ Ἐρετρικοί, Σκύριοι δὲ κάραβοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 45 1:3)
  • Μαινίδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 921)

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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