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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μαινίς μαινίδε μαινίδες
Genitive μαινίδος μαινίδοιν μαινίδων
Dative μαινίδι μαινίδοιν μαινίσιν*
Accusative μαινίδα μαινίδε μαινίδας
Vocative μαινί μαινίδε μαινίδες

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

  • γίνεται δ’ αὕτη ἐκ τῶν μικρῶν καὶ φαύλων τῶν ἐν τῇ ἄμμῳ διαγενομένων κωβιδίων καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆσ δὲ ταύτησ τῆσ ἀφύησ ἀπογεννῶνται ἕτεραι αἵτινεσ ἐγκρασίχολοι καλοῦνται, γίνεται δὲ καὶ ἄλλη ἀφύη ὁ γόνοσ τῶν μαινίδων καὶ ἄλλη ἐκ τῆσ μεμβράδοσ καὶ ἔτι ἄλλη ἐκ τῶν μικρῶν κεστρέων τῶν ἐκ τῆσ ἄμμου, καὶ τῆσ ἰλύοσ γινομένων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 22 1:7)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἔγνωσαν ἑαλωκότεσ ἰσχυρὰν καὶ ἄφυκτον ἅλωσιν, ἄλλα τε προθεσπίσαι πολλὰ τῶν μελλόντων καὶ τὸν ἐπὶ τοῖσ κεραυνοῖσ ἐκδιδάξαι καθαρμόν, ὃσ ποιεῖται μέχρι νῦν διὰ κρομμύων καὶ τριχῶν καὶ μαινίδων. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 15 4:3)

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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