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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μυγαλῆ μυγαλᾶ μυγαλαί
Genitive μυγαλῆς μυγαλαῖν μυγαλῶν
Dative μυγαλῇ μυγαλαῖν μυγαλαῖς
Accusative μυγαλῆν μυγαλᾶ μυγαλᾶς
Vocative μυγαλῆ μυγαλᾶ μυγαλαί

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

  • ἐῶ λέγειν μυῶν πλῆθοσ ἢ μυγαλῶν ἐμπολιτευόμενον αὐτοῖσ ἐνίοτε. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 24:9)
  • "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)
  • "τὸ δ’ οὐκ ἂν γένοιτο, οὐδ’ ἢν εἰσ τοῦ Νεμείου λέοντοσ τὸ δέρμα ἐνδήσῃ τισ ἑκκαίδεκα ὅλασ μυγαλᾶσ· (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 8:9)
  • "ὁ γοῦν Ἀσκληπιὸσ αὐτὸσ καὶ οἱ παῖδεσ αὐτοῦ ἤπια φάρμακα πάσσοντεσ ἐθεράπευον τοὺσ νοσοῦντασ, οὐ λεοντᾶσ καὶ μυγαλᾶσ περιάπτοντεσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 10:5)
  • δύναται παρ’ ὑμῖν μυγαλῆ, παρ’ ἐμοὶ δὲ γ’ οὔ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 55 2:4)
  • μυγάλη καὶ χαμαιλέων, καὶ χαλαβώτησ καὶ σαῦρα καὶ ἀσπάλαξ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 11:30)

Similar forms

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

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