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μίτος

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μίτος μίτου

Structure: μιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a thread, warp, thread by thread, in an unbroken series
  2. the string of a lyre

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

  • ἀνέρα δ’ ὑπνώοντα μίτῳ πολύσπι καλύπτω, ζῳοφόρων ἀνέμων οὐδὲν ἀτεμβόμενον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7653)
  • ἐσόδου δὲ ἐσ αὐτὸ εἴργοντεσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἔρυμα μὲν πρὸ τῆσ ἐσόδου προεβάλοντο οὐδέν, μίτον δὲ διατείνουσιν ἐρεοῦν, τάχα μέν που τοῖσ τότε ἄγουσι τὰ θεῖα ἐν τιμῇ δεῖμα καὶ τοῦτο ἔσεσθαι νομίζοντεσ, τάχα δ’ ἄν τι μετείη καὶ ἰσχύοσ τῷ μίτῳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. the string of a lyre

Related

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

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