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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

  • Τηλέμαχοσ δ’ Ὀδυσῆα καθίδρυε, κέρδεα νωμῶν, ἐντὸσ ἐϋσταθέοσ μεγάρου, παρὰ λάϊνον οὐδόν, δίφρον ἀεικέλιον καταθεὶσ ὀλίγην τε τράπεζαν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 41:1)
  • αἳ δὲ εἰσὶ ἐν τῷ ἱρῷ τῆσ Ἀθηναίησ, ἀγχοτάτω τοῦ μεγάρου, ἐσιόντι ἀριστερῆσ χειρόσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 169 5:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὸ τοῦ Ἀμάσιοσ σῆμα ἑκαστέρω μὲν ἐστὶ τοῦ μεγάρου ἢ τὸ τοῦ Ἀπρίεω καὶ τῶν τούτου προπατόρων, ἔστι μέντοι καὶ τοῦτο ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ τοῦ ἱροῦ, παστὰσ λιθίνη μεγάλη καὶ ἠσκημένη στύλοισί τε φοίνικασ τὰ δένδρεα μεμιμημένοισι καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ δαπάνῃ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 169 6:1)
  • αἵ περ ἔτι καὶ ἐσ ἐμὲ ἦσαν περιεοῦσαι, κρεμάμεναι ἐκ τειχέων περιπεφλευσμένων πυρὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ Μήδου, ἀντίον δὲ τοῦ μεγάρου τοῦ πρὸσ ἑσπέρην τετραμμένου. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 77 4:4)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀγχοῦ ἦσαν οἱ βάρβαροι ἐπιόντεσ καὶ ἀπώρων τὸ ἱρόν, ἐν τούτῳ ὁ προφήτησ, τῷ οὔνομα ἦν Ἀκήρατοσ, ὁρᾷ πρὸ τοῦ νηοῦ ὅπλα προκείμενα ἔσωθεν ἐκ τοῦ μεγάρου ἐξενηνειγμένα ἱρά, τῶν οὐκ ὅσιον ἦν ἅπτεσθαι ἀνθρώπων οὐδενί. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 37 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a large room or chamber

  2. the women's apartment

  3. the oracular chamber in the temple

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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