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μειράκιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μειράκιον μειράκιου

Structure: μειρακι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: mei=rac

Sense

  1. a boy, lad, stripling

Declension

Second 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

  • τοῖσ εὐπρεπέσιν δ’ ἀκολουθοῦντεσ καὶ μειρακίοισ οἱ φαυλότεροι τοιάδ’ ἐροῦσιν· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, pnigos8)
  • ὤμοι σοφίασ ‐ ὤμοι μανίασ ‐ ἧσ ἐμνήσθησ ‐ τῆσ σῆσ, πόλεώσ θ’ ἥτισ σε τρέφει λυμαινόμενον τοῖσ μειρακίοισ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, proagon 1:4)
  • οὐκ ἀκήκοασ, ὅταν λέγωσιν οἱ πατέρεσ ἑκάστοτε τοῖσ μειρακίοισ ἐν τοῖσι κουρείοισ ταδί; (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode, lyric 1:6)
  • οὐδ’ ἐμέλησεν τοῖσ μειρακίοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5252)
  • ἀφροδισιάζουσιν δὲ καὶ ποιοῦνται τὰσ συνουσίασ ὁτὲ μὲν ὁρῶντεσ ἀλλήλουσ, ὡσ δὲ τὰ πολλὰ καλύβασ περιβάλλοντεσ περὶ τὰσ κλίνασ, αἳ πεπλεγμέναι εἰσιν ἐκ ῥάβδων, ἐπιβέβληται δ’ ἄνωθεν ἱμάτια, καὶ πλησιάζουσι μὲν σφόδρα καὶ ταῖσ γυναιξί, πολὺ μέντοι γε μᾶλλον χαίρουσι συνόντεσ τοῖσ παισὶ καὶ τοῖσ μειρακίοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 14 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. a boy

Related

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

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