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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

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

  • τινὲσ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ δένδρεσιν ἢ πυργίοισ οἰκοῦσι, διὸ καὶ Μοσυνοίκουσ ἐκάλουν οἱ παλαιοί, τῶν πύργων μοσσύνων λεγομένων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 36:5)

Synonyms

  1. a wooden house or tower

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

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