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μηλέα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηλέα

Structure: μηλε (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: mh=lon

Sense

  1. an apple-tree

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μηλέα μηλέᾱ μηλέαι
Genitive μηλέᾱς μηλέαιν μηλεῶν
Dative μηλέᾱͅ μηλέαιν μηλέαις
Accusative μηλέᾱν μηλέᾱ μηλέᾱς
Vocative μηλέᾱ μηλέᾱ μηλέαι

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

  • τὰσ δὲ ῥοιὰσ καὶ τὰσ μηλέασ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ὀπώραν ἔλεγον εἶναι τρισκαιδεκάφορον· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 13:3)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ὁ γεωργὸσ ἄγριον μὲν ἐκκόπτων βλάστημα καὶ ἀγεννέσ, αὐτόθεν ἀφειδῶσ ἐμβαλὼν τὸ σκαφεῖον ἀνέτρεψε τὴν ῥίζαν ἢ πῦρ προσαγαγὼν ἐπέκαυσεν ἀμπέλῳ δὲ προσιὼν τομῆσ δεομένῃ καὶ μηλέασ ἤ τινοσ ἐλαίασ ἁπτόμενοσ, εὐλαβῶσ ἐπιφέρει τὴν χεῖρα, δεδιὼσ μή τι τοῦ ὑγιαίνοντοσ ἀποτυφλώσῃ· (Plutarch, De vitioso pudore, section 2 3:1)
  • "ἔτι δὲ μῆλα καὶ μηλέασ τὰσ λεγομένασ ἑσπερίδασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 23 3:3)
  • "καὶ πάλιν βόασ, ἀπίου, μηλέασ" Δίφιλοσ δ’ ὁ Σίφνιοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν προσφερομένων τοῖσ νοσοῦσι καὶ τοῖσ ὑγιαίνουσίν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 244)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐβοήθησαν οἱ Ἀρκάδεσ καὶ οἱ Ἀργεῖοι, ἐπαναχωρήσασ ἐστρατοπεδεύσατο ἐν τοῖσ ὑπὲρ Μηλέασ γηλόφοισ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 36:6)

Synonyms

  1. an apple-tree

Related

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

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