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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

  • ἀνέτειλε δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ ἥλιοσ, ἡνίκα παρῆλθε τὸ εἶδοσ τοῦ Θεοῦ. αὐτὸσ δέ ἐπέσκαζε τῷ μηρῷ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 32:31)
  • βέλοσ πεπηγὸσ ἐν μηρῷ σαρκόσ, οὕτωσ λόγοσ ἐν κοιλίᾳ μωροῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 19:12)
  • μόνην δὲ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ἔφυσεν ἐκ τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ κεφαλῆσ ὑπ’ αὐτὸν ἀτεχνῶσ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον συλλαβών τὸν μὲν γὰρ Διόνυσον ἡμιτελῆ, φασίν, ἐκ τῆσ μητρὸσ ἔτι καιομένησ ἁρπάσασ ἐν τῷ μηρῷ φέρων κατώρυξε κᾆτα ἐξέτεμεν τῆσ ὠδῖνοσ ἐνστάσησ. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 5:6)
  • Οὔκ, ἀλλὰ ἐν τῷ μηρῷ ἐκύει τὸ ἐκ τῆσ Σεμέλησ βρέφοσ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:10)
  • λοχίοισ δ’ αὐτίκα νιν δέ‐ ξατο θαλάμαισ Κρονίδασ Ζεύσ, κατὰ μηρῷ δὲ καλύψασ χρυσέαισιν συνερείδει περόναισ κρυπτὸν ἀφ’ Ἥρασ. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 12)

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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