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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 γὰρ ὅταν ἐμπέσῃ εἰσ οἰκίαν θεῶν ξυλίων ἢ περιχεύσων ἢ περιαργύρων πῦρ, οἱ μὲν ἱερεῖσ αὐτῶν φεύξονται καὶ διασωθήσονται, αὐτοὶ δὲ ὥσπερ δοκοὶ μέσοι κατακαυθήσονται. (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:55)
  • καὶ ὁ μείζων προσέοικε τῷ χελιδονίᾳ κατὰ τὴν σκληρότητα, τὰ δὲ ὑπογάστρια αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ κλεὶσ εὔστομα καὶ ἁπαλά, οἱ δὲ κοσταὶ λεγόμενοι ταριχευθέντεσ εἰσὶ μέσοι, ξανθίασ δ’ ἐπὶ ποσὸν βρωμώδησ ἐστὶν καὶ ἁπαλώτεροσ τοῦ ὀρκύνου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 5:1)
  • οἱ μὲν θαλάττιοι, φησὶν Ἱκέσιοσ, ὀλιγότροφοι καὶ εὐέκκριτοι, εὐχυλίᾳ δὲ μέσοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 812)
  • ὅταν μὲν γὰρ καλῶσ ἀνώμαλοι ὦσιν, οἱ μέσοι γίγνονται· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 145:2)
  • μεγάλα δὲ τὰ κέρατα, μῇκοσ μὲν ὁκόσον ὀργυιὴν οἱ μέσοι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 349)

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