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μνίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μνίον μνίου

Structure: μνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. moss, sea-weed.

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μνίον μνίω μνία
Genitive μνίου μνίοιν μνίων
Dative μνίῳ μνίοιν μνίοις
Accusative μνίον μνίω μνία
Vocative μνίον μνίω μνία

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

  • ὕκην ἢ κάλλιχθυν, ὁτὲ χρόμιν, ἄλλοτε δ’ ὀρφὸν ἢ γλαῦκον περόωντα κατὰ μνία σιγαλόεντα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 455)
  • ἐκ γὰρ τοῦ παντὸσ αἰῶνοσ σεσώρευται τοῦ μνίου φόρτοσ ἄπλατοσ, ὄρει παρεμφερήσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 19 5:1)
  • τοῦτο δ’ αὐτῇ φασι συμβαίνειν οὐ διὰ τὸ τὴν τῶν ὑγρῶν φύσιν εἶναι τοιαύτην, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ τοῦ διαφαινομένου καθ’ ὕδατοσ μνίου καὶ φύκουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 40 3:2)
  • τὸν γὰρ παράπλουν οὐκέτι συμβαίνει τραχὺν εἶναι, συνάπτειν τέ πωσ τῇ Ἀραβίᾳ καὶ τὸ πέλαγοσ ταπεινὸν εἶναι σχεδόν τι καὶ ἐπὶ δύο ὀργυιάσ, ποάζειν τε τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν διαφαινομένου τοῦ μνίου καὶ τοῦ φύκουσ ὅπερ πλεονάζει κατὰ τὸν πόρον, ὅπου γε καὶ δένδρα φύεται καθ’ ὕδατοσ παρὰ τοῖσ ἐνταῦθα· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 14:4)

Synonyms

  1. moss

Similar forms

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

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