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μεῖραξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεῖραξ μεῖρακος

Structure: μειρακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a young girl, lass

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὦ νεανίσκ’ οὐκ ἐῶ τὴν μείρακα μισεῖν σε ταύτην. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:21)
  • νῦν δ’ ἄπιθι χαίρων συλλαβὼν τὴν μείρακα. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:29)
  • καί ποτε, τῶν εἰωθότων παίζειν σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ μετέχειν τῆσ τοιαύτησ διατριβῆσ κατὰ τύχην μηδενὸσ παρόντοσ, ἀδημονῶν τὸν θεὸν προυκαλεῖτο διαβαλέσθαι τοῖσ κύβοισ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ ἐπὶ ῥητοῖσ, νικήσασ μὲν εὑρέσθαι τι παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ χρηστόν, ἂν δὲ λειφθῇ, δεῖπνον αὐτὸσ τῷ θεῷ παρασχεῖν καὶ μείρακα καλὴν συναναπαυσομένην. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 35 1:4)
  • ἂν δὲ λειφθῇ, δεῖπνον αὐτὸσ τῷ θεῷ παρασχεῖν καὶ μείρακα καλὴν συναναπαυσομένην. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 35 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a young girl

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

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