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μνααῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μνααῖος μνααῖη μνααῖον

Structure: μνααι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from mna=

Sense

  1. of the weight of a mna=

Examples

  • μνααῖαι γὰρ ἔπιπτον, ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ μείζουσ, ὥστε πολλὰσ μὲν τῶν οἰκιῶν συμπίπτειν διὰ τὸ βάροσ, οὐκ ὀλίγουσ δὲ καὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπόλλυσθαι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 45 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. of the weight of a mna=

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

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