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Μοῦσα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Μοῦσα Μοῦσης

Structure: Μους (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: Ma/w

Sense

  1. the Muse, the Muses
  2. music, song, eloquence, arts, accomplishments

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Μοῦσα Μούσᾱ Μοῦσαι
Genitive Μούσης Μούσαιν Μουσῶν
Dative Μούσῃ Μούσαιν Μούσαις
Accusative Μοῦσαν Μούσᾱ Μούσᾱς
Vocative Μοῦσα Μούσᾱ Μοῦσαι

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

  • Μοῦσα, τίσ πρῶτοσ λόγων ἆρχεν δικαίων; (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 15 5:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ ἐν σοφοῖσ τιμὰσ ἔχουσα Μοῦσα συγγόνων μία πάρειμι, παῖδα τόνδ’ ὁρῶσ’ οἰκτρῶσ φίλον θανόνθ’ ὑπ’ ἐχθρῶν· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, anapests 1:2)
  • μοῦσα δὲ χαὕτη τοῖσ δυστήνοισ ἄτασ κελαδεῖν ἀχορεύτουσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, anapests14)
  • ἀμφί μοι Ἴλιον, ὦ Μοῦσα, καινῶν ὕμνων ἀείσον ἐν δακρύοισ ᾠδὰν ἐπικήδειον· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἄγε νυν ὄλβιζε Μοῦσα χρυσέων ῥύτορα τόξων Φοῖβον, ὃσ ἱδρύσατο χώρασ γύαλα Σιμουντίδι γᾷ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, lyric5)
  • ἀρετᾶ[σ γε μ]ὲν οὐ μινύθει βροτῶν ἅμα σ[ώμα]τι φέγγοσ, ἀλλὰ Μοῦσά νιν τρ[έφει]. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 3 20:1)
  • ‐ σιγᾶν ἄμεινον τᾀσχρά, μηδὲ μοῦσά μοι γένοιτ’ ἀοιδὸσ ἥτισ ὑμνήσει κακά. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:25)

Synonyms

  1. the Muse

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

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