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μέθυ

Third declension Noun; Neuter 음식 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέθυ μέθυος

Structure: μεθυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. wine

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

  • ^ οὐ γὰρ ἔγωγὲ τί φημι τέλοσ χαριέστερον εἶναι, ἢ ὅτ’ ἂν εὐφροσύνη μὲν ἔχῃ κάτα δῆμον ἅπαντα, δαιτυμόνεσ δ’ ἀνὰ δώματ’ ἀκουάζωνται ἀοιδοῦ ἥμενοι ἑξείησ,^ παρὰ δὲ πλήθωσι τράπεζαι σίτου καὶ κρειῶν, μέθυ δ’ ἐκ κρητῆροσ ἀφύσσων οἰνοχόοσ φορέῃσι καὶ ἐγχείῃ δεπάεσσι. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 10:2)
  • κἀν τῷδε μόχθῳ πτηνὸσ ἐσπίπτει δόμοισ κῶμοσ πελειῶν ‐ Λοξίου γὰρ ἐν δόμοισ ἄτρεστα ναίουσ’ ‐ ὡσ δ’ ἀπέσπεισαν μέθυ, ἐσ αὐτὸ χείλη πώματοσ κεχρημέναι καθῆκαν, εἷλκον δ’ εὐπτέρουσ ἐσ αὐχένασ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 4:11)
  • εἰσ ἃσ δὴ συνιόντεσ οἱ τὸ θεῖον τιμῶντεσ καὶ εἰσ εὐφροσύνην καὶ ἄνεσιν αὑτοὺσ μεθιέντεσ τὸ μὲν ποτὸν μέθυ, τὸν δὲ τοῦτο δωρησάμενον θεὸν Μεθυμναῖον καὶ Λυαῖον καὶ Εὐιόν καὶ Ιἤιον προσηγόρευον, ὥσπερ καὶ τὸν μὴ σκυθρωπὸν καὶ σύννουν ἱλαρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 64 4:2)
  • πολλὸν δὲ πίνων καὶ χαλίκρητον μέθυ, οὔτε τῖμον εἰσενέγκασ οὔτε , οὐδὲ μὲν κληθεὶσ ἦλθεσ, οἱᾶ δὴ φίλοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 14 1:5)
  • "μέθυ νεῖμον πᾶσιν ἀνὰ μέγαρον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 23 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. wine

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