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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

  • "τῇ ἀριστερᾷ τισ ἀνελόμενοσ χαμᾶθεν τὸν ὀδόντα τῆσ μυγαλῆσ οὕτω φονευθείσησ, ὡσ προεῖπον, ἐνδήσειεν εἰσ δέρμα λέοντοσ ἄρτι ἀποδαρέν, εἶτα περιάψειε περὶ τὰ σκέλη, αὐτίκα παύεται τὸ ἄλγημα. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 7:2)

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

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