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μηκασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηκασμός μηκασμοῦ

Structure: μηκασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from mhka/omai

Sense

  1. a bleating

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μηκασμός μηκασμώ μηκασμοί
Genitive μηκασμοῦ μηκασμοῖν μηκασμῶν
Dative μηκασμῷ μηκασμοῖν μηκασμοῖς
Accusative μηκασμόν μηκασμώ μηκασμούς
Vocative μηκασμέ μηκασμώ μηκασμοί

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

  • φθεγξαμένου δὲ μόλισ οὐδὲν συνετῶσ, ἀλλὰ τραχεῖάν τινα καὶ μάλιστα μεμιγμένην ἵππου τε χρεμετισμῷ καὶ τράγου μηκασμῷ φωνὴν ἀφέντοσ, ἐκπλαγέντα τὸν Σύλλαν ἀποδιοπομπήσασθαι. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 27 2:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀνθρώπων ὅσοισ ἐπιληπτίζουσι συμβαίνει φθέγγεσθαι, μηκασμῷ παραπλησίαν φωνὴν ἀφιᾶσι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 1115)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀνθρώπων ὅσοισ ἐπιληπτίζουσι συμβαίνει φθέγγεσθαι, μηκασμῷ παραπλησίαν φωνὴν ἀφιᾶσι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 111 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a bleating

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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