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μᾶζα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μᾶζα μάζης

Structure: μαζ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: ma/ssw

Sense

  1. barley-bread or cake

Declension

First 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

  • "οἷσ δὴ βασιλεὺσ Κρόνοσ ἦν τὸ παλαιόν, ὅτε τοῖσ ἄρτοισ ἠστραγάλιζον, μᾶζαι δ’ ἐν ταῖσι παλαίστραισ Αἰγιναῖαι κατεβέβληντο δρυπεπεῖσ βώλοισ τε κομῶσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:105)
  • "οἴνῳ γὰρ ἅπασ1’ ἔρρει χαράδρα, μᾶζαι δ’ ἄρτοισ ἐμάχοντο περὶ τοῖσ στόμασιν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἱκετεύουσαι καταπίνειν εἴ τι φιλοῖεν τὰσ λευκοτάτασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:133)
  • , μᾶζαι πλακοῦντεσ, ἰσχάδεσ Τειθράσιαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 67 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. barley-bread or cake

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