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μειονεξία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μειονεξία

Structure: μειονεξι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. disadvantage

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μειονεξία μειονεξίᾱ μειονεξίαι
Genitive μειονεξίᾱς μειονεξίαιν μειονεξιῶν
Dative μειονεξίᾱͅ μειονεξίαιν μειονεξίαις
Accusative μειονεξίᾱν μειονεξίᾱ μειονεξίᾱς
Vocative μειονεξίᾱ μειονεξίᾱ μειονεξίαι

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

  • ἐν δὲ τῷ ὁμοῦ σκηνοῦν ἐδόκουν μὲν αὐτῷ ὠφελεῖσθαι πρὸσ τὸν μέλλοντα ἀγῶνα τοῦτο ὅτι ἑώρων ἀλλήλουσ ὁμοίωσ τρεφομένουσ καὶ οὐκ ἐνῆν πρόφασισ μειονεξίασ ὥστε ὑφίεσθαί τινασ κακίω ἕτερον ἑτέρου εἶναι πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 30:4)

Synonyms

  1. disadvantage

Similar forms

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

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