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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

  • καὶ ἔσται, ἐὰν ᾖ μεμιασμένη καὶ λήθῃ λάθη τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆσ, καὶ εἰσελεύσεται εἰσ αὐτὴν τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ ἐλεγμοῦ τὸ ἐπικαταρώμενον, καὶ πρησθήσεται τὴν κοιλίαν, καὶ διαπεσεῖται ὁ μηρὸσ αὐτῆσ, καὶ ἔσται ἡ γυνὴ εἰσ ἀρὰν τῷ λαῷ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 5:27)
  • πολλάκισ δὲ ἐν τῇ δᾳδουχίᾳ καὶ τοῖσ μυστικοῖσ σκιρτήμασιν γυμνωθεὶσ ὁ μηρὸσ αὐτοῦ ἐξεπίτηδεσ χρυσοῦσ διεφάνη, δέρματοσ ὡσ εἰκὸσ ἐπιχρύσου περιτεθέντοσ καὶ πρὸσ τὴν αὐγὴν τῶν λαμπάδων ἀποστίλβοντοσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 40:1)
  • "τὸ δὲ οἴμοι τῶν κακῶν πολλάκισ, καὶ ὁ μηρὸσ πατασσέσθω, καὶ λαρύγγιζε καὶ ἐπιχρέμπτου τοῖσ λεγομένοισ καὶ βάδιζε μεταφέρων τὴν πυγήν. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:37)
  • ὦ Ἡράκλεισ, χρυσοῦσ αὐτῷ ὁ μηρόσ ἐστι. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 6:13)
  • μηδὲ τῷ μὲν μεγάλα, τῷ δὲ κομιδῇ μικρά παρατιθέσθω, μηδὲ τῷ μὲν ὁ μηρόσ, τῷ ἡ γνάθοσ συόσ, ἀλλ̓ ἰσότησ ἐπὶ πᾶσιν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:8)

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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