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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

  • "καὶ πρῶτα μὲν αἴρω ποθεινὴν μᾶζαν, ἣν φερέσβιοσ Δηὼ βροτοῖσι χάρμα δωρεῖται φίλον ἔπειτα πνικτὰ τακερὰ μηκάδων μέλη, χλόην καταμπέχοντα σάρκα νεογενῆ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 53 1:11)
  • εὖ λέγεισ, ξουθῆσ μελίσσησ νάμασιν δὲ συμμιγῆ μηκάδων αἰγῶν ἀπόρρουν θρόμβον, ἐγκαθειμένον εἰσ πλατὺ στέγαστρον ἁγνῆσ παρθένου Δηοῦσ κόρησ, λεπτοσυνθέτοισ τρυφῶντα μυρίοισ καλύμμασιν, ἢ σαφῶσ πλακοῦντα φράζω σοι; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 70 3:4)
  • 2οὐδ’ ὃν Κυνθογενὴσ ἔτευξε φύτλη λαβόντε μηκάδων κέρα, Λισσαῖσιν ἀμφὶ δειράσιν ὅσσαι νέμονται Κυνθίαισ, ἰσόρροποσ πελοιτό μοι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 25 1:3)

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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