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μέγαρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέγαρον μέγαρου

Structure: μεγαρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a large room or chamber, the hall
  2. the women's apartment
  3. a house, palace, at home
  4. the oracular chamber in the temple, the sanctuary, shrine

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

  • ἑξῆσ δὲ τὰ Μέγαρα καὶ Νῖσοσ καὶ Σκύλλα καὶ πορφυροῦσ πλόκαμοσ καὶ Μίνωοσ πόροσ καὶ περὶ τὴν εὐεργέτιν ἀχαριστία. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 41:1)
  • ὦ Μέγαρα Μέγαρ’ ὡσ ἐπιτετρίψεσθ’ αὐτίκα ἁπαξάπαντα καταμεμυττωτευμένα. (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests 2:37)
  • πολύευκτον δὲ τὸν Κυδαντίδην τοῦ δήμου προστάξαντοσ ζητῆσαι τὴν βουλήν, εἰ συνέρχεται τοῖσ φυγάσιν εἰσ Μέγαρα, καὶ ζητήσασαν ἀποφῆναι πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ, ἀπέφηνεν ἡ βουλὴ συνιέναι. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 70:1)
  • "τῶν δὲ ἡρωικῶν οἴκων τοὺσ μείζονασ Ὅμηροσ μέγαρα καλεῖ καὶ δώματα καὶ κλισίασ, οἱ δὲ νῦν ξενῶνασ καὶ ἀνδρῶνασ ὀνομάζουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:22)
  • ἄνελε τὴν Περικλέουσ πολιτείαν καὶ τὰ ναύμαχα πρὸσ Ῥίῳ Φορμίωνοσ τρόπαια καὶ τὰσ περὶ Κύθηρα καὶ Μέγαρα καὶ Κόρινθον ἀνδραγαθίασ Νικίου καὶ τὴν Δημοσθένουσ Πύλον καὶ τοὺσ Κλέωνοσ τετρακοσίουσ αἰχμαλώτουσ καὶ Τολμίδαν Πελοπόννησον περιπλέοντα καὶ Μυρωνίδην νικῶντα Βοιωτοὺσ ἐν Οἰνοφύτοισ, καὶ Θουκυδίδησ σοι διαγέγραπται. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 14)
  • ποῦ δῆτα Μεγάρα; (Euripides, Heracles, episode8)
  • χορὸσ δὲ καλλίμορφοσ εἱστήκει τέκνων πατήρ τε Μεγάρα τ’· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a large room or chamber

  2. the women's apartment

  3. the oracular chamber in the temple

Related

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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