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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

  • "ἑορτὰσ δὲ καὶ θυσίασ, ὥσπερ ἡμέρασ ἀποφράδασ καὶ σκυθρωπάσ, ἐν αἷσ ὠμοφαγίαι καὶ διασπασμοὶ νηστεῖαί τε καὶ κοπετοί, πολλαχοῦ δὲ πάλιν αἰσχρολογίαι πρὸσ ἱεροῖσ μανίαι τ’ ἀλαλαὶ τ’ ὀρινόμεναι ῥιψαύχενι σὺν κλόνῳ, θεῶν μὲν οὐδενὶ δαιμόνων δὲ φαύλων ἀποτροπῆσ ἕνεκα φήσαιμ’ ἂν τελεῖσθαι μειλίχια καὶ παραμύθια. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 142)
  • προϊόντι δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ γενομένῳ κατὰ τὸν Κηφισόν, ἄνδρεσ ἐκ τοῦ Φυταλιδῶν γένουσ ἀπαντήσαντεσ ἠσπάσαντο πρῶτοι, καὶ δεομένου καθαρθῆναι, τοῖσ νενομισμένοισ ἁγνίσαντεσ καὶ μειλίχια θύσαντεσ εἱστίασαν οἴκοι, μηδενὸσ πρότερον αὐτῷ φιλανθρώπου καθ’ ὁδὸν ἐντυχόντοσ. (Plutarch, chapter 12 1:1)

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

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