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μαστός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαστός μαστοῦ

Structure: μαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. human breast, mamma, (rarely of animals) udder

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

  • διὰ κενῆσ ἄρα ἐν σπαργάνοισ σε μαστὸσ ἐξέθρεψ’ ὅδε, μάτην δ’ ἐμόχθουν καὶ κατεξάνθην πόνοισ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 5:9)
  • αἳ δ’ ἀγκάλαισι δορκάδ’ ἢ σκύμνουσ λύκων ἀγρίουσ ἔχουσαι λευκὸν ἐδίδοσαν γάλα, ὅσαισ νεοτόκοισ μαστὸσ ἦν σπαργῶν ἔτι βρέφη λιπούσαισ· (Euripides, episode, trochees 4:4)
  • τοιαύτην γὰρ ὁ μαστὸσ ἔχει ἐντὸσ διάθεσιν καὶ κρᾶσιν. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 3 14:1)
  • τοιαύτην γὰρ ὁ μαστὸσ ἔχει ἐντὸσ διάθεσιν καὶ κρᾶσιν. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 3 5:1)
  • μαστὸσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 741)

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