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μείων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μείων μεῖον

Structure: μει (Stem) + ων (Comparative Ending)

Sense

  1. less
  2. smaller

Declension

Third declension
Comparative
Adjective μείων μείονος
Adverb μεῖον

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

  • ὑπερφαλαγγῆσαι δὲ ἐν ἴσῳ τῷ πλήθει ἢ καὶ μείονι, μὴ ἐπὶ λεπτὸν ἐπεκτείναντα, οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε. (Arrian, chapter 29 17:2)
  • ἀνάγκη γὰρ ὑπερέχειν καὶ τοῦ μείονι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 7 6:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἰδίῃ τῶν μὲν ἀμφὶ τὰσ λαγόνασ, ἀσκίτου τυμπανίασ χερείων, τῶν δὲ ὅλου τοῦ σκήνεοσ ὁ λευκοφλ εγματίασ τοῦ ἀνὰ σάρκα μείων· ἐπιεικὴσ μὲν ὦν, ἐν ἀπελπίστοισι, ἢν ὁ μείων ξυστῇ τῷ μείονι· κακίων δὲ εἴ τισ τῶν μειόνων ἑνὶ τῶν μεζόνων ἐσ τὠυτὸ ξυμβῇ· ἢν δὲ ἐσ ἄκρασ ἡ μίξισ ἅμ’ ἥκηται δυοῖν μεγάλοιν, μέζον κακὸν τὸ ἔκγονον. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 15)

Synonyms

  1. smaller

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