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μελιτόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελιτόεις μελιτόεσσα μελιτόεν

Structure: μελιτοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: me/li

Sense

  1. honied, sweet, delicious
  2. sweetened with honey, a honey-cake

Examples

  • ὁ νικῶν δὲ λοιπὸν ἀμφὶ βίοτον ἔχει μελιτόεσσαν εὐδίαν ἀέθλων γ’ ἕνεκεν. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 1 25:1)
  • τὰ δ’ ἐπιμήνια μελιτόεσσα ἐστί. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 41 3:4)
  • αὕτη δὴ ἡ μελιτόεσσα ἐν τῷ πρόσθε αἰεὶ χρόνῳ ἀναισιμουμένη τότε ἦν ἄψαυστοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 41 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. honied

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

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