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μινυνθάδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μινυνθάδιος μινυνθάδιᾱ μινυνθάδιον

Structure: μινυνθαδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. shortlived

Declension

First/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

  • οὐδὲ τοκεῦσι θρέπτρα φίλοισ ἀπέδωκε, μινυνθάδιοσ δέ οἱ αἰὼν ἔπλεθ’ ὑπ’ Αἰάντοσ μεγαθύμου δουρὶ δαμέντι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 48:3)
  • μινυνθάδιοσ γὰρ ἔμελλεν ἔσσεσθ’· (Homer, Iliad, Book 15 62:9)
  • ὃ δ’ ἄγχ’ αὐτοῖο πέσε πρηνὴσ ἐπὶ νεκρῷ τῆλ’ ἀπὸ Λαρίσησ ἐριβώλακοσ, οὐδὲ τοκεῦσι θρέπτρα φίλοισ ἀπέδωκε, μινυνθάδιοσ δέ οἱ αἰὼν ἔπλεθ’ ὑπ’ Αἰάντοσ μεγαθύμου δουρὶ δαμέντι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 29:6)

Synonyms

  1. shortlived

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

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