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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

  • τοῖν τε γὰρ μηροῖν οὕτωσ ἂν ἔχοιτο μᾶλλον τοῦ ἵππου, καὶ ὀρθὸσ ὢν ἐρρωμενεστέρωσ ἂν δύναιτο καὶ ἀκοντίσαι καὶ πατάξαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἵππου, εἰ δέοι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 7 6:2)
  • καθ’ ὃν καιρὸν τῷ προειρημένῳ συνέβη τὸν μὲν ἵππον πεσεῖν πληγέντα καιρίωσ, αὐτὸν δὲ πεζομαχοῦντα περιπεσεῖν τραύματι βιαίῳ δι’ ἀμφοῖν τοῖν μηροῖν. (Polybius, Histories, book 2, chapter 69 2:1)

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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