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μίλτος

Second declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μίλτος

Structure: μιλτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. red chalk, ruddle

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μίλτος μίλτω μίλτοι
Genitive μίλτου μίλτοιν μίλτων
Dative μίλτῳ μίλτοιν μίλτοις
Accusative μίλτον μίλτω μίλτους
Vocative μίλτε μίλτω μίλτοι

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

  • ἢ ζῴῳ τινὶ εὐτελεῖ ὡμοίωσεν αὐτό, καταχρίσασ μίλτῳ καὶ φύκει ἐρυθήνασ χρόαν αὐτοῦ, καὶ πᾶσαν κηλῖδα τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ καταχρίσας (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 13:14)
  • ᾠκοδόμησασ σεαυτῷ οἶκον σύμμετρον, ὑπερῷα ριπιστὰ διεσταλμένα θυρίσι καὶ ἐξυλωμένα ἐν κέδρῳ καὶ κεχρισμένα ἐν μίλτῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 22:14)
  • ὡσ νῦν γε ἐλελήθεισ σαυτὸν τοῖσ ὑπὸ τῶν κοροπλάθων εἰσ τὴν ἀγορὰν πλαττομένοισ ἐοικώσ, κεχρωσμένοσ μὲν τῇ μίλτῳ καὶ τῷ κυανῷ, τὸ δ’ ἔνδοθεν πήλινόσ τε καὶ εὔθρυπτοσ ὤν. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 22:5)
  • "τὰ δὲ σώματα οἱ μὲν ἐκέχριντο ὀστρείῳ, τινὲσ δὲ μίλτῳ καὶ χρώμασιν ἑτέροισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:105)
  • ἣν Ζηνοφάνησ φησὶ πρότερον Μιλτὼ καλουμένην Ἀσπασίαν μετονομασθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 37 2:3)

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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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