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μῖμος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μῖμος μίμου

Structure: μιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. mime, actor
  2. imitation, mimicking
  3. mime (a drama of everyday life without choir)

Declension

Second declension

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

  • "μῖμοί τινεσ εἰσιν, ὧν τοὺσ μὲν ὑποθέσεισ τοὺσ δὲ παίγνια καλοῦσιν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 13:1)
  • ταυρόφθογγοι δ’ ὑπομυκῶνται ποθὲν ἐξ ἀφανοῦσ φοβεροὶ μῖμοι, τυπάνου δ’ εἰκὼν ὥσθ’ ὑπογαίου βροντῆσ φέρεται βαρυταρβήσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 26:6)

Synonyms

  1. mime

  2. imitation

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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