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μνῆστις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μνῆστις μνήστιος

Structure: μνηστι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mna/omai

Sense

  1. remembrance, recollection, heed

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

  • ὅτου δ’ ἀπορρεῖ μνῆστισ εὖ πεπονθότοσ, οὐκ ἂν γένοιτ’ ἔθ’ οὗτοσ εὐγενὴσ ἀνήρ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:23)
  • ἦ γὰρ ὀνείρων μνῆστισ ἀεικελίη δῦνεν φρένασ ὁρμαίνουσαν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 12:18)
  • σπουδῇ δ’ ἐσ λιμένα προερέσσαμεν, οὐδέ τισ ἡμῖν δόρπου μνῆστισ ἐήν, μάλα περ χατέουσιν ἑλέσθαι, ἀλλ’ αὔτωσ ἀποβάντεσ ἐκείμεθα νηὸσ ἅπαντεσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 13 34:10)
  • νῦν δὲ ἐπειδὴ περιελήλυθε ὁ πόλεμοσ καὶ ἀπῖκται ἐσ ὑμέασ, οὕτω δὴ Γέλωνοσ μνῆστισ γέγονε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 158 4:2)

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

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