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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

  • πατὴρ δ’ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε ἄλλην μῆτιν ὕφαινε μετὰ φρεσίν, ὥσ ῥα θεοῖσιν ἀνδράσι τ’ ἀλφηστῇσιν ἀρῆσ ἀλκτῆρα φυτεύσαι. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 2:13)
  • τότ’ ἄμαχοσ δαίμων Δαϊανείρᾳ πολύδακρυν ὕφανε μῆτιν ἐπίφρον’, ἐπεὶ πύθετ’ ἀγγελίαν ταλαπενθέα, Ιὄλαν ὅτι λευκώλενον Διὸσ υἱὸσ ἀταρβομάχασ ἄλοχον λιπαρὸ[ν π]οτὶ δόμον πέμποι. (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 16 <[H(raklh=s]> 2:3)
  • σὺ δὲ βαρεῖαν κάτε‐ χε μῆτιν. (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 2:2)
  • Ἁλίου τε γαμβρῷ χολώ[σατ’ ἦτορ, ὕφαινέ τε ποταινίαν μῆτιν, εἶπέν τε· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 3:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ Δί’ ἔμελλε θεῶν πατέρ’ ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν τέξεσθαι, τότ’ ἔπειτα φίλουσ λιτάνευε τοκῆασ τοὺσ αὐτῆσ, Γαῖάν τε καὶ Οὐρανὸν ἀστερόεντα, μῆτιν συμφράσσασθαι, ὅπωσ λελάθοιτο τεκοῦσα παῖδα φίλον, τίσαιτο δ’ ἐρινῦσ πατρὸσ ἑοῖο παίδων θ’, οὓσ κατέπινε μέγασ Κρόνοσ ἀγκυλομήτησ. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 44:6)

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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