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μέσαβον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέσαβον μέσαβου

Structure: μεσαβ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: me/sos, bou=s

Sense

  1. a leathern strap

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μέσαβον μεσάβω μέσαβα
Genitive μεσάβου μεσάβοιν μεσάβων
Dative μεσάβῳ μεσάβοιν μεσάβοις
Accusative μέσαβον μεσάβω μέσαβα
Vocative μέσαβον μεσάβω μέσαβα

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

  • εὔχεσθαι δὲ Διὶ χθονίῳ Δημήτερί θ’ ἁγνῇ, ἐκτελέα βρίθειν Δημήτεροσ ἱερὸν ἀκτήν, ἀρχόμενοσ τὰ πρῶτ’ ἀρότου, ὅτ’ ἂν ἄκρον ἐχέτλησ χειρὶ λαβὼν ὁρ́πηκα βοῶν ἐπὶ νῶτον ἵκηαι ἔνδρυον ἑλκόντων μεσάβων. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 53:1)

Synonyms

  1. a leathern strap

Similar forms

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

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