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μνηστύς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μνηστύς μνηστύος

Structure: μνηστυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ionic for mnhstei/a, Od.

Sense

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

  • πρὸσ δ’ ἔτι καὶ τόδε μεῖζον ἐνὶ φρεσὶ θῆκε Κρονίων, μή πωσ οἰνωθέντεσ, ἔριν στήσαντεσ ἐν ὑμῖν, ἀλλήλουσ τρώσητε καταισχύνητέ τε δαῖτα καὶ μνηστύν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 16 33:2)
  • πρὸσ δ’ ἔτι καὶ τόδε μεῖζον ἐνὶ φρεσὶν ἔβαλε δαίμων μή πωσ οἰνωθέντεσ, ἔριν στήσαντεσ ἐν ὑμῖν, ἀλλήλουσ τρώσητε καταισχύνητέ τε δαῖτα καὶ μνηστύν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 2:4)

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

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