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μυγαλῆ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυγαλῆ

Structure: μυγαλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: mu=s, gale/h

Sense

  1. the shrew-mouse, field-mouse

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

  • "τὴν μὲν γὰρ μυγαλῆν ἐκτεθειάσθαι λέγουσιν ὑπ’ Αἰγυπτίων τυφλὴν οὖσαν, ὅτι τὸ σκότοσ τοῦ φωτὸσ ἡγοῦντο πρεσβύτερον τίκτεσθαι δ’ αὐτὴν ἐκ μυῶν πέμπτῃ γενεᾷ νουμηνίασ οὔσησ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 4:8)
  • ἀετὸν δὲ Θηβαῖοι, λέοντα δὲ Λεοντοπολῖται, αἶγα δὲ καὶ τράγον Μενδήσιοι, μυγαλῆν δὲ Ἀθριβῖται, ἄλλοι δ’ ἄλλο τι· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 79:7)

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

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