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μηρός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηρός μηροῦ

Structure: μηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the thigh
  2. the leg-bones

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

  • πᾶσαι χεῖρεσ ἐκλυθήσονται, καὶ πάντεσ μηροὶ μολυνθήσονται ὑγρασίᾳ, (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 7:17)
  • καὶ ἔσται ἐὰν εἴπωσι πρὸσ σέ. ἕνεκα τίνοσ σὺ στενάζεισ̣ καὶ ἐρεῖσ. ἐπὶ τῇ ἀγγελίᾳ, διότι ἔρχεται, καὶ θραυσθήσεται πᾶσα καρδία, καὶ πᾶσαι χεῖρεσ παραλυθήσονται, καὶ ἐκψύξει πᾶσα σὰρξ καὶ πᾶν πνεῦμα, καὶ πάντεσ μηροὶ μολυνθήσονται ὑγρασίᾳ. ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται καὶ ἔσται λέγει Κύριοσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 21:7)
  • εἰκών, ἧσ ἡ κεφαλὴ χρυσίου χρηστοῦ, αἱ χεῖρεσ καὶ τὸ στῆθοσ καὶ οἱ βραχίονεσ αὐτῆσ ἀργυροῖ, ἡ κοιλία καὶ οἱ μηροὶ χαλκοῖ, (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 2:32)
  • ἐκ δὲ θυμάτων Ἥφαιστοσ οὐκ ἔλαμπεν, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ σποδῷ μυδῶσα κηκὶσ μηρίων ἐτήκετο κἄτυφε κἀνέπτυε, καὶ μετάρσιοι χολαὶ διεσπείροντο, καὶ καταρρυεῖσ μηροὶ καλυπτῆσ ἐξέκειντο πιμελῆσ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode16)
  • τῶν δὲ γυμναὶ μὲν αἱ κεφαλαί, γυμνὰ δὲ τὰ στέρνα καὶ αἱ λαγόνεσ, γυμνοὶ δὲ μηροὶ καὶ σκέλη μέχρι ποδῶν, ἔρυμά τε οὐδὲν ἕτερον, ὅ τι μὴ θυρεοί· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 14, chapter 9 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. the thigh

  2. the leg-bones

Related

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

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