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μηλονόμος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: mēlonomos

Principal Part: μηλονόμος μηλονόμον

Structure: μηλονομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: νέμω

Sense

  1. tending sheep or goats

Examples

  • καλεῖ δὲ καὶ Χοιρίλον εἰπόντα ἐν τῇ διαβάσει τῆς σχεδίας ἣν ἔζευξε Δαρεῖος μηλονόμοι τε Σάκαι, γενεῇ Σκύθαι: (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 18:9)

Synonyms

  1. tending sheep or goats

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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