Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μύξα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύξα μύξης

Structure: μυξ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: mu/ssomai

Sense

  1. the discharge from the nose

Declension

First 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

  • ‐ Τοῦτο οὖν εὔλογον μύξασ γίνεσθαι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 31:1)
  • ἀμήχανον ἦν μύξασ μὴ ῥεῖν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τοιοῦτον ἔχοντοσ τὸ σύγκραμα· (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. the discharge from the nose

Related

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

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