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μειλιχία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μειλιχία

Structure: μειλιχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from meili/ssw

Sense

  1. gentleness, softness, lukewarmness

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἵνα τῷδ’ ἐν ἀ‐ φθέγκτῳ μὴ προπέσῃσ νάπει ποιάεντι, κάθυδροσ οὗ κρατὴρ μειλιχίων ποτῶν ῥεύματι συντρέχει, τόν, ξένε πάμμορ’, εὖ φύλαξαι; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 15)
  • κεῖται δὲ τὸ πόλισμα ἐπὶ ὑψηλοῦ, καί σφισιν ἄλσοσ καὶ βωμὸσ θεῶν Μειλιχίων ἐστί· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 38 13:4)

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

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