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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

  • οὐ γὰρ πρὶν παύσεσθαι ὀίομαι υἱᾶσ Ἀχαιῶν μνηστύοσ ἀργαλέησ, ἐπεὶ οὔ τινα δείδιμεν ἔμπησ, οὔτ’ οὖν Τηλέμαχον μάλα περ πολύμυθον ἐόντα, οὔτε θεοπροπίησ ἐμπαζόμεθ’, ἣν σύ, γεραιέ, μυθέαι ἀκράαντον, ἀπεχθάνεαι δ’ ἔτι μᾶλλον. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 2 16:14)
  • 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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