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μέροψ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέροψ μέροπος

Structure: μεροπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mei/romai, o)/y

Sense

  1. dividing the voice, articulate-speaking, endowed, with speech

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

  • καὶ συμπεσόντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ ἐσ χεῖρασ, οἱ Μέροπεσ τῷ Ἀνταγόρᾳ παραβοηθοῦντεσ, οἱ δὲ Ἕλληνεσ τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ, μάχην καρτερὰν συνῆψαν, ἐν ᾗ λέγεται τῷ πλήθει καταπονούμενοσ ὁ Ἡρακλῆσ καταφυγεῖν πρὸσ γυναῖκα Θρᾷτταν καὶ διαλαθεῖν ἐσθῆτι γυναικείᾳ κατακρύψασ ἑαυτόν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 58 1:3)
  • καὶ συμπεσόντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ ἐσ χεῖρασ, οἱ Μέροπεσ τῷ Ἀνταγόρᾳ παραβοηθοῦντεσ, οἱ δ’ Ἕλληνεσ τῷ Ἡρακλεῖ, μάχην καρτερὰν συνῆψαν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 58 4:1)
  • πρὶν μὲν γὰρ Πριάμοιο πόλιν μέροπεσ ἄνθρωποι πάντεσ μυθέσκοντο πολύχρυσον πολύχαλκον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 28:4)

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

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