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μειρακύλλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μειρακύλλιον μειρακύλλιου

Structure: μειρακυλλι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: meira/kion의 지소사,

Sense

  1. a mere lad

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

  • πολὺ γὰρ αὐτῷ ἀστειότερον ἐδόκει μετὰ τῶν μειρακυλλίων καθεζόμενον ὀαρίζειν καὶ σοφισμάτια προβάλλειν τοῖσ ἐντυγχάνουσιν ἢ ἀνδρὶ Σπαρτιάτῃ μάχεσθαι. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 43:10)

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

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