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μενεχάρμης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μενεχάρμης μενεχάρμου

Structure: μενεχαρμ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: xa/rmh

Sense

  1. staunch in battle

Declension

First 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

  • Κουρῆτέσ τ’ ἐμάχοντο καὶ Αἰτωλοὶ μενεχάρμαι ἀμφὶ πόλιν Καλυδῶνα καὶ ἀλλήλουσ ἐνάριζον, Αἰτωλοὶ μὲν ἀμυνόμενοι Καλυδῶνοσ ἐραννῆσ, Κουρῆτεσ δὲ διαπραθέειν μεμαῶτεσ Ἄρηϊ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 27:21)
  • οἱ δ’ ἀντιλέγοντεσ τῷ τρόπῳ τῆσ φράσεωσ παράγονται ὅταν φῇ Κουρῆτέσ τ’ ἐμάχοντο καὶ Αἰτωλοὶ μενεχάρμαι ἀμφὶ πόλιν Καλυδῶνα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 1:5)
  • πολέμου δ’ ἐμπεσόντοσ τοῖσ Θεστιάδαισ πρὸσ Οἰνέα καὶ Μελέαγρον, ὡσ μὲν ὁ ποιητήσ ἀμφὶ συὸσ κεφαλῇ καὶ δέρματι κατὰ τὴν περὶ τοῦ κάπρου μυθολογίαν, ὡσ δὲ τὸ εἰκὸσ περὶ μέροσ τῆσ χώρασ, οὕτω δὴ λέγεται Κουρῆτέσ τ’ ἐμάχοντο καὶ Αἰτωλοὶ μενεχάρμαι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 10:11)

Synonyms

  1. staunch in battle

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

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