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μέσος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέσος μέση μέσον

Structure: μες (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. middle of, between, amidst
  2. half
  3. of middle quality: moderate, intermediate

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἔλαβε δὲ αὐτῷ πάντα ταῦτα καὶ διεῖλεν αὐτὰ μέσα καὶ ἔθηκεν αὐτὰ ἀντιπρόσωπα ἀλλήλοισ, τὰ δὲ ὄρνεα οὐ διεῖλε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 15:10)
  • μέσα δ’ αἰετὸσ οὐρανοῦ ποτᾶται. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 14)
  • "ἔπειτα καὐτὸσ ἃ μὲν προϊόντι ἐπιδεικνὺσ κατὰ τὴν ὁδόν, ἃ δὲ καὶ παραινῶν, πρὶν ἥλιον δῦναι ῥήτορά σε ὑπὲρ τοὺσ πάντασ ἀποφανῶ, οἱο͂σ αὐτόσ εἰμι, ἀναμφιλέκτωσ τὰ πρῶτα καὶ μέσα καὶ τελευταῖα τῶν λέγειν ἐπιχειρούντων. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:12)
  • "εἰ οὖν πρὸσ τὰ πρῶτα τῶν Μενάνδρου δραμάτων τὰ μέσα καὶ τὰ τελευταῖα παραβάλοι τισ, ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπιγνώσεται, ὅσα ἔμελλεν, εἰ ἐπεβίω, καὶ τούτοισ ἕτερα προσθήσειν. (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 26)
  • σπέρματι μὴν κάλυκεσ κεφαλήγονοι ἀντελέουσιν, ἀργήεισ πετάλοισι, κρόκῳ μέσα χροιισθεῖσαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 31 2:2)

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