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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μεσόδμη μεσόδμᾱ μεσόδμαι
Genitive μεσόδμης μεσόδμαιν μεσοδμῶν
Dative μεσόδμῃ μεσόδμαιν μεσόδμαις
Accusative μεσόδμην μεσόδμᾱ μεσόδμᾱς
Vocative μεσόδμη μεσόδμᾱ μεσόδμαι

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

  • Κρεμάσαι χρὴ τὸν ἄνθρωπον τῶν ποδῶν πρὸσ μεσόδμην δεσμῷ δυνατῷ μὲν, μαλθακῷ δὲ καὶ πλάτοσ ἔχοντι‧ τοὺσ δὲ πόδασ διέχειν χρὴ, ὅσον τέσσαρασ δακτύλουσ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων, ἢ καὶ ἔλασσον‧ χρὴ δὲ καὶ ἐπάνωθεν τῶν ἐπιγουνίδων προσπεριβεβλῆσθαι πλαῖ ἱμάντι καὶ μαλθακῷ, ἀνατείνοντι ἐσ τὴν μεσόδμην‧ τὸ δὲ σκέλοσ τὸ σιναρὸν ἐντετάσθαι χρὴ ὡσ δύο δακτύλουσ μᾶλλον τοῦ ἑτέρου‧ ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ γῆσ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀπεχέτω ὡσ δύο πήχεασ, ἢ ὀλίγῳ πλέον, ἢ ἔλασσον‧ τὰσ δὲ χεῖρασ παρατεταμένασ παρὰ τὰσ πλευρὰσ προσδεδεμένοσ ἔστω μαλθακῷ τινι‧ πάντα δὲ ταῦτα ὑπτίῳ κατακειμένῳ κατασκευασθήτω, ὡσ ὅτι ἐλάχιστον χρόνον κρέμηται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 70.2)

Synonyms

  1. a box amidships

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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