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μελίφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελίφρων μελίφρονος

Structure: μελιφρων (Stem)

Etym.: frh/n

Sense

  1. sweet to the mind, delicious

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

  • μελίφρονοσ ὕπ̣ (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 1 4:3)
  • χόνδροσ δ’ ἡδυπρόσωποσ, ὃν Ἥφαιστοσ κάμεν ἕψων, Ἀττικῷ ἐν κεράμῳ πέττων τρισκαίδεκα μῆνασ, αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δόρποιο μελίφρονοσ ἐξ ἔρον ἕντο, χεῖρασ νιψαμένοισιν ἀπ’ ’ Ὠκεανοῖο ῥοάων ὡραῖοσ παῖσ ἦλθε φέρων μύρον ἴρινον ἡδύ, ἄλλοσ δ’ αὖ στεφάνουσ ἐπὶ δεξιὰ πᾶσιν ἔδωκεν, οἳ ῥόδον ἀμφεπλέκοντο διάνδιχα κοσμηθέντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 17:2)
  • ἀρξάμενοσ θ’ οὕτωσ ἑξῆσ φησιν ἀλλὰ θαυμάζω τί με λεξοῦντι Ἰσθμοῦ δεσπόται τοιάνδε μελίφρονοσ ἀρχὰν εὑρόμενον σκολιοῦ, ξυνάορον ξυναῖσ γυναιξί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 33 2:4)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐμοὶ οὐ δόρποιο μελίφρονοσ ἤρατο θυμόσ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 15:10)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν σίτοιο μελίφρονοσ ἐξ ἔρον ἧσθε, ἔρχεσθαί θ’ ἅμ’ ἐμοὶ καὶ ἰηπαιήον’ ἀείδειν, εἰσ ὅ κε χῶρον ἵκησθον, ἵν’ ἕξετε πίονα νηόν. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 33:4)

Synonyms

  1. sweet to the mind

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

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