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μῆτις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μῆτις μῆτιος

Structure: μητι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Ma/w

Sense

  1. the faculty of advising, wisdom, counsel, cunning, craft, for craft, skill or craft
  2. advice, counsel, a plan, undertaking

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μῆτις μήτιε μήτιες
Genitive μήτιος μητίοιν μητίων
Dative μήτῑ μητίοιν μήτισιν*
Accusative μῆτιν μήτιε μήτιας
Vocative μῆτι μήτιε μήτιες

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 εἶπε. μήτι κύριε, ἐὰν λαλήσω ἔτι ἅπαξ. ἐὰν δὲ εὑρεθῶσιν ἐκεῖ δέκα̣ καὶ εἶπεν. οὐ μὴ ἀπολέσω ἕνεκεν τῶν δέκα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 18:32)
  • καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἀβιμέλεχ τὸν Ἁβραάμ, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ. τί τοῦτο ἐποίησασ ἡμῖν̣ μήτι ἡμάρτομεν εἰσ σέ, ὅτι ἐπήγαγεσ ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν μου ἁμαρτίαν μεγάλην̣ ἔργον, ὃ οὐδεὶσ ποιήσει, πεποίηκάσ μοι. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 20:9)
  • μὴ φιλεχθρήσῃσ πρὸσ ἄνθρωπον μάτην, μήτι σε ἐργάσηται κακόν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 3:30)
  • μήτι πτερνιεῖ ἄνθρωποσ Θεόν̣ διότι ὑμεῖσ πτερνίζετέ με. καὶ ἐρεῖτε. ἐν τίνι ἐπτερνίσαμέν σε̣ ὅτι τὰ ἐπιδέκατα καὶ αἱ ἀπαρχαὶ μεθ̓ ὑμῶν εἰσι. (Septuagint, Prophetia Malachiae 3:8)
  • καὶ τεθεμελίωται ἀσφαλῶσ, καὶ μηχαναὶ ἐφεστᾶσιν, καὶ ἑνὶ λόγῳ, πᾶσιν ἐξήρτυται πρὸσ τὸ μηδὲ πελάσαι ἂν τινα αὐτῷ τῶν βαρβάρων, μήτι γε δὴ ἐσ κίνδυνον καταστῆσαι πολιορκίασ τοὺσ ἐν αὐτῷ φρουροῦντασ. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 9 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. advice

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

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