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μείς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μείς μηνός

Structure: μει (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. month
  2. crescent moon
  3. ornament in form of crescent moon

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μείς μῆνε μῆνες
Genitive μηνός μηνοῖν μηνῶν
Dative μηνί μηνοῖν μησίν*
Accusative μῆνα μῆνε μῆνας
Vocative μείς μῆνε μῆνες

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

  • ἐὰν καὶ μία ἡμέρα ὁ βίοσ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ, ἀριθμητοὶ δὲ μῆνεσ αὐτοῦ παῤ αὐτοῦ. εἰσ χρόνον ἔθου, καὶ οὐ μὴ ὑπερβῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 14:5)
  • οὐ νεοτελήσ, ἀλλὰ μῆνεσ ἑπτὰ σχεδὸν ἀπὸ Διονυσίων, ὅτε πρῶτον εἶδον αὐτην. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:10)
  • φησὶν γὰρ ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ τῶν Μελῶν ὁ Μεγίστησ δ’ ὁ φιλόφρων δέκα δὴ μῆνεσ ἐπείτε στεφανοῦταί τε λύγῳ καὶ τρύγα πίνει μελιηδέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 11 4:3)
  • ὁ γοῦν Ἀνακρέων φησίν ὁ Μεγίστησ ὁ φιλόφρων δέκα δὴ μῆνεσ ἐπειδὴ στεφανοῦταί τε λύγῳ καὶ τρύγα πίνει μελιηδέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 14 2:2)
  • φυλὰσ δὲ αὐτῶν συννενεμῆσθαι δ, ἀπομιμησαμένων τὰσ ἐν τοῖσ ἐνιαυτοῖσ ὡρ́ασ, ἑκάστην δὲ διῃρῆσθαι εἰσ τρία μέρη τῶν φυλῶν, ὅπωσ γίνηται τὰ πάντα δώδεκα μέρη, καθάπερ οἱ μῆνεσ εἰσ τὸν ἐνιαυτόν, καλεῖσθαι δὲ αὐτὰ τριττῦσ καὶ φρατρίασ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., 11)

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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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