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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

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

  • ἐν τῷ ἑξακοσιοστῷ ἔτει ἐν τῇ ζωῇ τοῦ Νῶε, τοῦ δευτέρου μηνόσ, ἑβδόμῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ μηνόσ, τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ ἐρράγησαν πᾶσαι αἱ πηγαὶ τῆσ ἀβύσσου, καὶ οἱ καταρράκται τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἠνεῴχθησαν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 7:11)
  • 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)

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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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