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μήλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μήλειος μήλειον

Structure: μηλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mh=lon

Sense

  1. of a sheep, of sheep

Declension

First/Second 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

  • νυκτὸσ δὲ τῆσδε πρὸσ τάφον μολὼν πατρὸσ δάκρυά τ’ ἔδωκα καὶ κόμησ ἀπηρξάμην πυρᾷ τ’ ἐπέσφαξ’ αἷμα μηλείου φόνου, λαθὼν τυράννουσ οἳ κρατοῦσι τῆσδε γῆσ. (Euripides, episode 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. of a sheep

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

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