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μόσσυν

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μόσσυν μόσσυνος

Structure: μοσσυν (Stem)

Etym.: Prob. a foreign word.

Sense

  1. a wooden house or tower

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μόσσυν μόσσυνε μόσσυνες
Genitive μόσσυνος μοσσύνοιν μοσσύνων
Dative μόσσυνι μοσσύνοιν μόσσῡσιν*
Accusative μόσσυνα μόσσυνε μόσσυνας
Vocative μόσσυν μόσσυνε μόσσυνες

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

  • αὐτὰρ ἐν ὑψίστῳ βασιλεὺσ μόσσυνι θαάσσων ἰθείασ πολέεσσι δίκασ λαοῖσι δικάζει, σχέτλιοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 17:12)
  • ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺσ αὐτῶν ὁ ἐν τῷ μόσσυνι τῷ ἐπ’ ἄκρου ᾠκοδομημένῳ, ὃν τρέφουσι πάντεσ κοινῇ αὐτοῦ μένοντα καὶ φυλάττουσιν, οὐκ ἤθελεν ἐξελθεῖν, οὐδὲ ὁ ἐν τῷ πρότερον αἱρεθέντι χωρίῳ, ἀλλ’ αὐτοῦ σὺν τοῖσ μοσσύνοισ κατεκαύθησαν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 29:2)

Synonyms

  1. a wooden house or tower

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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