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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

  • Σπεύσιπποσ δ’ ἐν δευτέρῳ Ὁμοίων ὅμοιά φησιν εἶναι τῇ μαινίδι βόακασ καὶ σμαρίδασ, ὧν μνημονεύειν καὶ ’ Ἐπίχαρμον ἐν Γᾷ καὶ Θαλάσσᾳ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 923)

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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