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μάκρος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάκρος μάκρεος

Structure: μακρος (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = mh=kos

Sense

  1. length

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μάκρος μά́κρει μά́κρη
Genitive μά́κρους μά́κροιν μάκρέων
Dative μά́κρει μά́κροιν μά́κρεσιν*
Accusative μάκρος μά́κρει μά́κρη
Vocative μάκροσς μά́κρει μά́κρη

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

  • ἄνοδοσ ἐσ αὐτὸν λίθου πεποίηται, οὐ κάρτα μακρή. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 30:2)
  • τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἡσυχίη μακρὴ καὶ ἀφωνίη καὶ πέντε ὅλων ἐτέων λαλέειν μηδέν. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 3:9)
  • "βραχὺσ μὲν ὁ βίοσ, μακρὴ δὲ ἡ τέχην. (Lucian, 3:1)
  • καὶ δεινὸν οὐδέν, εἴ γε ἀληθῆ ἔλεγεσ ἐν ἀρχῇ, ὡσ ὁ μὲν βίοσ βραχύσ, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή. (Lucian, 129:6)
  • γογγυλίδοσ δισσὴ γὰρ ἰδ’ ἐκ ῥαφάνοιο γενέθλη μακρή τε στιφρή τε φαείνεται ἐν πρασιῇσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 8 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. length

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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