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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

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

  • χρησμὸσ δοθεὶσ Τιμοκράτῃ Ἀθηναίῳ ἐρωτήσαντι περὶ ἐπιληψίασ μείζον’ ἀειράμενοσ κεφαλῆσ ποιμνηίου εὐλὴν μηκάδοσ, ἀγρονόμοιο δέμασ περικάββαλε μήλου, ἑρπηστὰν πολύπλαγκτον ἐϋρρήνου ἀπὸ κόρσησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 1491)

Synonyms

  1. the bleating one

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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