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μηκάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηκάς μηκάδος

Structure: μηκαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from mhka/omai

Sense

  1. the bleating one

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μηκάς μηκάδε μηκάδες
Genitive μηκάδος μηκάδοιν μηκάδων
Dative μηκάδι μηκάδοιν μηκάσιν*
Accusative μηκάδα μηκάδε μηκάδας
Vocative μηκά μηκάδε μηκάδες

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

  • σίττ’ ἀπὸ τᾶσ κοτίνω ταὶ μηκάδεσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 87)
  • οὕτω κεν καὶ Τρῶεσ ἀνέπνευσαν κακότητοσ, οἵ τέ σε πεφρίκασι λέονθ’ ὡσ μηκάδεσ αἶγεσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 37:9)
  • πολλοὶ μὲν βόεσ ἀργοὶ ὀρέχθεον ἀμφὶ σιδήρῳ σφαζόμενοι, πολλοὶ δ’ ὀί̈εσ καὶ μηκάδεσ αἶγεσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. the bleating one

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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