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μείλιγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μείλιγμα μείλιγματος

Structure: μειλιγματ (Stem)

Etym.: meili/ssw

Sense

  1. anything that serves to soothe, scraps to appease
  2. propitiations, atonements
  3. a fondling, darling
  4. a soothing song

Declension

Third 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

  • ἁπαλοῖσ οὖσιν, πολλὰ καὶ ἀπατηλὰ μειλίγματα καὶ ὑποπεττεύματα προσφέροντεσ καὶ καταφαρμάττοντεσ, ἡδονῶν παρὰ φύσιν γευόμενα καὶ διαίτησ ἀδρανῆ χρόνῳ κατειργάσαντο, ἑώσ προσεδέξαντο καὶ ὑπέμειναν τὴν καλουμένην ἐξημέρωσιν ὥσπερ ἀπογυναίκωσιν τοῦ θυμοειδοῦσ· (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 4 8:1)
  • ἦ πολλὰ μὲν δὴ τῶν ἐμῶν ἐλείξατε, χοάσ τ’ ἀοίνουσ, νηφάλια μειλίγματα, καὶ νυκτίσεμνα δεῖπν’ ἐπ’ ἐσχάρᾳ πυρὸσ ἔθυον, ὡρ́αν οὐδενὸσ κοινὴν θεῶν. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 9:1)
  • ἢ πατρὶ τὠμῷ τάσδ’ ἐπεικάσασ τύχω χοὰσ φερούσασ νερτέροισ μειλίγματα; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 1:15)
  • μειλίγματα γὰρ θυμοῦ σιτία· εὐκαιρίη δὲ ἐν τῇσι ἐπανέσεσι ἀμφοῖν, καὶ πυρετοῦ καὶ παραφορῆσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 15)
  • ὑμῖν αὖ καὶ ἐγὼ λιγεῶν μειλίγματα Μουσέων, οἷ’ αὐταὶ παρέχουσι καὶ ὡσ ἐμὸσ οἶκοσ ὑπάρχει, τοῖα φέρω. (Theocritus, Idylls, 138)

Synonyms

  1. propitiations

  2. a fondling

  3. a soothing song

Related

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

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