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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

  • ὑπερφαλαγγῆσαι δὲ ἐν ἴσῳ τῷ πλήθει ἢ καὶ μείονι, μὴ ἐπὶ λεπτὸν ἐπεκτείναντα, οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε. (Arrian, chapter 29 17:2)
  • ἀνάγκη γὰρ ὑπερέχειν καὶ τοῦ μείονι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 7 6:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἰδίῃ τῶν μὲν ἀμφὶ τὰσ λαγόνασ, ἀσκίτου τυμπανίασ χερείων, τῶν δὲ ὅλου τοῦ σκήνεοσ ὁ λευκοφλ εγματίασ τοῦ ἀνὰ σάρκα μείων· ἐπιεικὴσ μὲν ὦν, ἐν ἀπελπίστοισι, ἢν ὁ μείων ξυστῇ τῷ μείονι· κακίων δὲ εἴ τισ τῶν μειόνων ἑνὶ τῶν μεζόνων ἐσ τὠυτὸ ξυμβῇ· ἢν δὲ ἐσ ἄκρασ ἡ μίξισ ἅμ’ ἥκηται δυοῖν μεγάλοιν, μέζον κακὸν τὸ ἔκγονον. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 15)

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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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