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μυῖα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυῖα μυίας

Structure: μυι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a fly (the insect)

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

  • ἡ μυῖα ἔστι μὲν οὐ τὸ σμικροτάτον τῶν ὀρνέων, ὅσον ἐμπίσι καὶ κώνωψι καὶ τοῖσ ἔτι λεπτοτέροισ παραβάλλειν, ἀλλὰ τοσοῦτον ἐκείνων μεγέθει προὔχει ὅσον αὐτὴ μελίττησ ἀπολείπεται. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 1:1)
  • ἀποτμηθεῖσα δὲ τὴν κεφαλὴν μυῖα ἐπὶ πολὺ ζῇ τῷ σώματι καὶ ἔμπνουσ ἐστίν. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 6:3)
  • ἀποθανοῦσα γὰρ μυῖα τέφρασ ἐπιχυθείσησ ἀνίσταται καὶ παλιγγενεσία τισ αὐτῇ καὶ βίοσ ἄλλοσ ἐξ ὑπαρχῆσ γίνεται, ὡσ ἀκριβῶσ πεπεῖσθαι πάντασ, ὅτι κἀκείνων ἀθάνατόσ ἐστιν ἡ ψυχή, εἴ γε καὶ ἀπελθοῦσα ἐπανέρχεται πάλιν καὶ γνωρίζει καὶ ἐπανίστησι τὸ σῶμα καὶ πέτεσθαι τὴν μυῖαν ποιεῖ, καὶ ἐπαληθεύει τὸν περὶ Ἑρμοτίμου τοῦ Κλαζομενίου μῦθον, ὅτι πολλάκισ ἀφιεῖσα αὐτὸν ἡ ψυχὴ ἀπεδήμει καθ’ ἑαυτήν, εἶτα ἐπανελθοῦσα ἐπλήρου αὖθισ τὸ σῶμα καὶ ἀνίστα τὸν Ἑρμότιμον. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 7:3)
  • ἐγένετο κατὰ τοὺσ παλαιοὺσ καὶ γυνή τισ ὁμώνυμοσ αὐτῇ, ποιήτρια, πάνυ καλὴ καὶ σοφή, καὶ ἄλλη ἑταίρα τῶν Ἀττικῶν ἐπιφανήσ, περὶ ἧσ καὶ ὁ κωμικὸσ ποιητὴσ ἔφη, ἡ Μυῖα ἔδακνεν αὐτὸν ἄχρι τῆσ καρδίασ· (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 11:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ μακροβιότητόσ φησιν ὅτι ὦπταί τισ μυῖα ἔτη ἕξ ἢ ἑπτὰ ζήσασα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 47 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a fly

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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