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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μηρός μηρώ μηροί
Genitive μηροῦ μηροῖν μηρῶν
Dative μηρῷ μηροῖν μηροῖς
Accusative μηρόν μηρώ μηρούς
Vocative μηρέ μηρώ μηροί

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

  • ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο ἐν ταῖσ ἡμέραισ ἐκείναισ οὐκ ἦν βασιλεὺσ ἐν Ἰσραήλ. καὶ ἐγένετο ἀνὴρ Λευίτησ παροικῶν ἐν μηροῖσ ὄρουσ Ἐφραὶμ καὶ ἔλαβεν αὐτῷ γυναῖκα παλλακὴν ἀπὸ Βηθλεὲμ Ἰούδα. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 19:1)
  • οἱο͂ν γάρ τι τοῖσ Μενελάου μηροῖσ τὸ χρῶμα ἐκεῖνοσ ἐπέβαλεν ἐλέφαντι εἰκάσασ ἠρέμα πεφοινιγμένῳ, τοιόνδε ἔστω τὸ πᾶν ὁ δ’ αὐτὸσ οὗτοσ καὶ τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ γραψάτω βοῶπίν τινα ποιήσασ αὐτήν. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 8:2)
  • τὸ τρυφερὸν γὰρ ἐμπέφυκε τοῖσ ἁπαλοῖσι μηροῖσ κἀπὶ τοῖσ μήλοισ ἐπανθεῖ· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 12)
  • αἳ σὺν νέοισιν ἐξερημοῦσιν δόμουσ γυμνοῖσι μηροῖσ καὶ πέπλοισ ἀνειμένοισ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Lycurgus and Numa, chapter 3 3:3)
  • μηροῖσ ὑπαίθων τὴν Διὸσ τυραννίδα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 79 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. the thigh

  2. the leg-bones

Related

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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