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μῆλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μῆλον μήλου

Structure: μηλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. apple
  2. any fruit from a tree
  3. (figuratively, in the plural) a woman's breast
  4. (in the plural) cheeks

Declension

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

  • στηρίσατέ με ἐν μύροισ, στοιβάσατέ με ἐν μήλοισ, ὅτι τετρωμένη ἀγάπησ ἐγώ. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 2:5)
  • τὸ τρυφερὸν γὰρ ἐμπέφυκε τοῖσ ἁπαλοῖσι μηροῖσ κἀπὶ τοῖσ μήλοισ ἐπανθεῖ· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 12)
  • ἐμβαλὼν δὲ εἰσ χώραν τραχύτητι χαλεπὴν καὶ ὁμιχλώδη καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ σπόρου καρπῶν ἄγονον, ἀπίοισ δὲ καὶ μήλοισ καὶ τοιούτοισ ἄλλοισ ἀκροδρύοισ τρέφουσαν ἀνθρώπουσ πολεμικοὺσ καὶ θυμοειδεῖσ, ἔλαθε μεγάλαισ ἀπορίαισ καὶ κινδύνοισ περιπεσών. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 24 1:3)
  • ἐπεὶ πολιᾶσ εἶπέ τιν’ αὐτὸσ ὁρᾶν ἔνδον θαλάσσασ αὐξομέναν πεδόθεν πολύβοσκον γαῖαν ἀνθρώποισι καὶ εὔφρονα μήλοισ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 7 21:3)
  • Ἠέλιοσ δ’ ᾧ παιδὶ τόγ’ ἔξοχον ὤπασε δῶρον, ἀφνειὸν μήλοισ περὶ πάντων ἔμμεναι ἀνδρῶν, καί ῥά οἱ αὐτὸσ ὄφελλε διαμπερέωσ βοτὰ πάντα ἐσ τέλοσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 53)

Synonyms

  1. apple

  2. any fruit from a tree

  3. cheeks

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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