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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

  • καὶ δῆτα πολὺν ἡ μίλτοσ ὦ Ζεῦ φίλτατε γέλων παρέσχεν, ἣν προσέρραινον κύκλῳ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 1:25)
  • καὶ κηρὸσ δὲ καὶ μέλι καὶ πίττα ἐξάγεται καὶ κόκκοσ πολλὴ καὶ μίλτοσ οὐ χείρων τῆσ Σινωπικῆσ γῆσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 12:2)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ Καππαδοκίᾳ γίνεται καὶ ἡ λεγομένη Σινωπικὴ μίλτοσ ἀρίστη τῶν πασῶν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 2 18:5)

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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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