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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

  • καὶ ἐκάθισεν ἡ κιβωτὸσ ἐν μηνὶ τῷ ἑβδόμῳ, ἑβδόμῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ μηνόσ, ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 8:4)
  • τὸ δὲ ὕδωρ ἠλαττονοῦτο ἕωσ τοῦ δεκάτου μηνόσ. καὶ ἐν τῷ δεκάτῳ μηνί, τῇ πρώτῃ τοῦ μηνόσ, ὤφθησαν αἱ κεφαλαὶ τῶν ὀρέων. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 8:5)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ μηνὶ ἐξηράνθη ἡ γῆ, ἑβδόμῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ μηνόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 8:14)
  • ἐν γὰρ τῇ σήμερον ὑμεῖσ ἐκπορεύεσθε ἐν μηνὶ τῶν νέων. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 13:4)
  • καὶ ἔσται ἡνίκα ἐὰν εἰσαγάγῃ σε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου εἰσ τὴν γῆν τῶν Χαναναίων καὶ Χετταίων καὶ Ἀμορραίων καὶ Εὐαίων καὶ Ἰεβουσαίων καὶ Γεργεσαίων καὶ Φερεζαίων, ἣν ὤμοσε τοῖσ πατράσι σου δοῦναί σοι γῆν ρέουσαν γάλα καὶ μέλι, καὶ ποιήσεισ τὴν λατρείαν ταύτην ἐν τῷ μηνὶ τούτῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 13:5)

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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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