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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

  • καὶ μὴν καὶ τὰσ μὲν ἄλλασ τέχνασ, εἰ καί τι κατὰ ταύτασ ἀσύμφωνον εἰή, κἂν παρέλθοι τισ συγγνώμησ ἀξιώσασ, ἐπεὶ μέσαι τε δοκοῦσι καὶ αἱ καταλήψεισ αὐτῶν οὐκ εἰσὶν ἀμετάπτωτοι φιλοσοφίαν δὲ τίσ ἂν καὶ ^ ἀνάσχοιτο μὴ μίαν εἶναι καὶ μηδὲ σύμφωνον αὐτὴν ἑαυτῇ μᾶλλον τῶν ὀργάνων; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 28:1)
  • καίτοι εἴ γε χρὴ τεκμαίρεσθαι τῇ τε ἡσυχίᾳ πολλῇ ἔτι οὔσῃ καὶ τῷ κρύει μηδέπω με τὸ ὄρθριον ὥσπερ εἰώθεν ἀποπηγνύντι ‐ γνώμων γὰρ οὗτοσ ἀψευδέστατόσ μοι προσελαυνούσησ ἡμέρασ ‐ οὐδέπω μέσαι νύκτεσ εἰσίν, ὁ δὲ ἀύ̈πνοσ οὗτοσ ὥσπερ τὸ χρυσοῦν ἐκεῖνο κώδιον φυλάττων ἀφ’ ἑσπέρασ εὐθὺσ ἤδη κέκραγεν, ἀλλ’ οὔτι χαίρων γε· (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 1:2)
  • ὁ δ̓ οὐδ̓ ὁπωστιοῦν ὑπεμαλάχθη, ἀλλ̓ εἴ μοι, φησίν, ἐπὶ πλέον ἐνοχλήσειασ, ἄπειμι ἤδη, εἰ καὶ μέσαι νύκτεσ εἰσίν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:9)
  • μέσαι γὰρ νύκτεσ ἦσαν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:13)
  • ὅκα παρῇ τρίγλα τε μία παχῆα κἀμίαι δύο διατετμαμέναι μέσαι φάσσαι τε τοσσαῦται παρῆν σκορπίοι τε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 6 2:2)

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