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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

  • ὁ δὲ Δημήτριοσ ὁ βασιλεὺσ κατελθὼν ἐκ τῶν Μεγάρων κατεσκευάζετο τὰ πρὸσ τὴν Μουνυχίαν καὶ τὰ τείχη κατασκάψασ ἀπέδωκε τῷ δήμῳ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 3 2:4)
  • ἀεικελίωσ γυναῖκεσ ἐξ ἐϋκτίτων μεγάρων ἄγονται· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 3 10:2)
  • καὶ ὁ Ὀδυσσεὺσ προστάττει τοῖσ περὶ τὸν Φήμιον ἀλλ’ ἐξελθόντεσ μεγάρων εὖ ναιεταόντων ἐκ φόνου εἰσ αὐλήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 15 4:2)
  • Περικλέα δὲ τὸν Ὀλύμπιόν φησιν Ἡρακλείδησ ὁ Ποντικὸσ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἡδονῆσ ὡσ ἀπήλλαξεν ἐκ τῆσ οἰκίασ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τὸν μεθ’ ἡδονῆσ βίον προείλετο ᾤκει τε μετ’ Ἀσπασίασ τῆσ ἐκ Μεγάρων ἑταίρασ καὶ τὸ πολὺ μέροσ τῆσ οὐσίασ εἰσ ταύτην κατανάλωσε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 451)
  • οὔτε γὰρ πρότερον οὐδεπώποτε ἐγένετο ἐπὶ ταύτησ τῆσ ἐργασίασ, ἀλλ’ ἐκέκτητο χαλκοτύπουσ, οὔτε τότ’ ἐκπλεύσασ οὐδὲν εἰσήγαγεν ἐκ Μεγάρων, ἓξ ἔτη συνεχῶσ ἀποδημήσασ. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 77:3)

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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