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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

  • τοῖα κατακνώσσουσα μινυνθαδίῳ νέον ὕπνῳ λεύσσω ὀνείρατα λυγρά, τά τισ θεὸσ ἀκράαντα θείη, μηδ’ ἀλεγεινὸν ἐφ’ υἱάσι κῆδοσ ἕλοιο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 12:15)
  • "τὴν δὲ μετ’ Ἰφιμέδειαν, Ἀλωῆοσ παράκοιτιν εἴσιδον, ἣ δὴ φάσκε Ποσειδάωνι μιγῆναι, καί ῥ’ ἔτεκεν δύο παῖδε, μινυνθαδίω δ’ ἐγενέσθην, Ὦτόν τ’ ἀντίθεον τηλεκλειτόν τ’ Ἐφιάλτην, οὓσ δὴ μηκίστουσ θρέψε ζείδωροσ ἄρουρα καὶ πολὺ καλλίστουσ μετά γε κλυτὸν Ὠρίωνα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 37:1)

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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