Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μεῖον

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεῖον μειονος

Structure: μειον (Stem)

Sense

  1. less.
  2. the lamb which was offered at the Apaturia, too light!

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

  • ἀλλὰ πλέω λείπειν, τὰ δὲ μείονα φορτίζεσθαι. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 75:13)
  • βουκολίασ δ’ ἀγέλασ τε καὶ αἰπόλια πλατέ’ αἰγῶν ποίμνασ τ’ εἰροπόκων ὀίων, θυμῷ γ’ ἐθέλουσα, ἐξ ὀλίγων βριάει κἀκ πολλῶν μείονα θῆκεν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 42:20)
  • ἴσχει τε γὰρ ὄλβοσ οὐ μείονα φθόνον· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 11 10:2)
  • τοὺσ δὲ οὐδὲν πλέον ἀλλὰ καὶ μείονα τούτων κεκτημένουσ ἔχοντασ εὐθὺσ ἕτοιμα ὅταν ὧν ἂν δέωνται χρῆσθαι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 3 3:3)
  • εἰσ Καμάριναν τὴν ὲν ^,Σικελίᾳ λίμνην μὴ κίνει Καμάριναν, ἀκίνητοσ γὰρ ἀμείνων, μή ποτε κινήσασ τὴν μείονα μείζονα θείησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6851)

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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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