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μίσθωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μίσθωμα μίσθωματος

Structure: μισθωματ (Stem)

Etym.: from misqo/w

Sense

  1. the price agreed on in hiring, the contract-price
  2. that which is let for hire, a hired house

Declension

Third 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

  • αἰσχύνη πατρὶ υἱὸσ ἄφρων. οὐχ ἁγναὶ εὐχαὶ ἀπὸ μισθώματοσ ἑταίρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 19:11)
  • ἐπεὶ γάρ τισ ἐρῶν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ τῆσ ἑταίρασ Θώνιδοσ ᾐτεῖτο συχνὸν χρυσίον, εἶτα κατὰ τοὺσ ὕπνουσ δόξασ αὐτῇ συγγενέσθαι τῆσ ἐπιθυμίασ ἐπαύσατο, δίκην ἔλαχεν ἡ Θωνὶσ αὐτῷ τοῦ μισθώματοσ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 27 5:2)
  • ἀμφικτυόνων δὲ μισθωσάντων τὸν ἐν Δελφοῖσι νῦν ἐόντα νηὸν τριηκοσίων ταλάντων ἐξεργάσασθαι ὁ γὰρ πρότερον ἐὼν αὐτόθι αὐτόματοσ κατεκάη, τοὺσ Δελφοὺσ δὴ ἐπέβαλλε τεταρτημόριον τοῦ μισθώματοσ παρασχεῖν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 180 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. that which is let for hire

Related

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

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