Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μήλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μήλη

Structure: μηλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a probe

Declension

First 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

  • Ἐπορεύθη δὲ Ρουβὴν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θερισμοῦ πυρῶν καὶ εὗρε μῆλα μανδραγορῶν ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ καὶ ἤνεγκεν αὐτὰ πρὸσ Λείαν τὴν μητέρα αὐτοῦ. εἶπε δὲ Ραχὴλ Λείᾳ τῇ ἀδελφῇ αὐτῆσ. δόσ μοι τῶν μανδραγορῶν τοῦ υἱοῦ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 30:14)
  • εἶπα. ἀναβήσομαι ἐπὶ τῷ φοίνικι, κρατήσω τῶν ὕψεων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται δὴ μαστοί σου ὡσ βότρυεσ τῆσ ἀμπέλου καὶ ὀσμὴ ρινόσ σου ὡσ μῆλα (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 7:9)
  • καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἐσ τὸν χῶρον ἦλθεν ἔνθα οἱ Κίρκη ἐσήμηνεν καὶ ἔσκαψεν τὸν βόθρον καὶ τὰ μῆλα ἔσφαξεν, πολλῶν νεκρῶν παρεόντων, ἐν τοῖσι καὶ τῆσ μητρὸσ τῆσ ἑωυτοῦ, τοῦ αἵματοσ πιεῖν ἐθελόντων οὐ πρότερον ἐπῆκεν ^ οὐδενί, οὐδὲ αὐτῇ μητρί, πρὶν Τειρεσίην γεύσασθαι καὶ ἐξαναγκάσαι εἰπεῖν οἱ τὸ μαντήιον· (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 24:2)
  • ἄρτι μὲν Ἰδαίην ὑπερέδραμον οὔρεοσ ἄκρην, ἔνθα λιθοκρήδεμνον ὑπὸ πρηῶνοσ ἐρίπνην κουρίζων ἐνόμευε Πάρισ πατρώια μῆλα. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 153)
  • Ὀλυμπίασι μὲν στέφανοσ ἐκ κοτίνου, Ἰσθμοῖ δὲ ἐκ πίτυοσ, ἐν Νεμέᾳ δὲ σελίνων πεπλεγμένοσ, Πυθοῖ δὲ μῆλα τῶν ἱερῶν τοῦ θεοῦ, παρ’ ἡμῖν δὲ τοῖσ Παναθηναίοισ τὸ ἔλαιον τὸ ἐκ τῆσ μορίασ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 9:2)

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

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