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μεσόδμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσόδμη

Structure: μεσοδμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from de/mw, for mesodo/mh

Sense

  1. something built between, bays or compartments between
  2. a box amidships

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

  • Οἱ δ’ ὅτε δὴ λιμένοσ περιηγέα κάλλιπον ἀκτὴν φραδμοσύνῃ μήτι τε δαΐφρονοσ Ἁγνιάδαο Τίφυοσ, ὅσ ῥ’ ἐνὶ χερσὶν ἐύξοα τεχνηέντωσ πηδάλι’ ἀμφιέπεσκ’, ὄφρ’ ἔμπεδον ἐξιθύνοι, δή ῥα τότε μέγαν ἱστὸν ἐνεστήσαντο μεσόδμῃ, δῆσαν δὲ προτόνοισι, τανυσσάμενοι ἑκάτερθεν, κὰδ δ’ αὐτοῦ λίνα χεῦαν, ἐπ’ ἠλακάτην ἐρύσαντεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 10:24)

Synonyms

  1. a box amidships

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

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