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μύλη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύλη μύλης

Structure: μυλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. mill, hand-mill
  2. nether millstone
  3. knee-pan
  4. hard formation in a woman's womb
  5. (in the plural) molars

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

  • ὅτι ἔθνοσ ἀνέβη ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν μου ἰσχυρὸν καὶ ἀναρίθμητον, οἱ ὀδόντεσ αὐτοῦ, ὀδόντεσ λέοντοσ, καὶ αἱ μύλαι αὐτοῦ σκύμνου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 1:6)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτα μύλην ἀγαθὴν ὡρ́α ζητεῖν σοι καὶ νεόκοπτον, ἢν μή τι λέγῃσ, ἥτισ δυνατὴ τὸν ἐμὸν θυμὸν κατερεῖξαι. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, 1)
  • ὁ κρουματοποιὸσ Δωρίων ποτ’ εἰσ Μυλῶν ἐλθὼν κατάλυσιν οὐδαμοῦ μισθωσίμην δυνάμενοσ εὑρεῖν ἐν τεμένει καθίσασ τινί, ὃ πρὸ τῶν πυλῶν ἦν κατὰ τύχην ἱδρυμένον, ἰδών τ’ ἐκεῖ θύοντα τὸν νεωκόρον, ’ πρὸσ τῆσ Ἀθηνᾶσ καὶ θεῶν, τίνοσ, φράσον, ἐστὶν ὁ νεώσ, βέλτιστε, φησίν, οὑτοσί; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 18 1:1)
  • καὶ μόνοσ οὗτοσ ἰχθύων τὴν καρδίαν ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ ἔχει καὶ ἐν τῷ ἐγκεφάλῳ λίθουσ ἐμφερεῖσ μύλαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 995)
  • Αἰσχύλοσ εἶπεν ἁγνόν τ’ Ἀπόλλω φυγάδ’ ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ θεόν, οὔτ’ ὁ Σοφοκλέουσ Ἄδμητοσ οὑμὸσ δ’ ἀλέκτωρ αὐτὸν ἦγε πρὸσ μύλην. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 15 1:1)
  • Τὰ δὲ κινεύμενα, οἱο͂ν ἄρθρα, ὅπη μὲν ξυγκάμπτεται, ὡσ ἥκιστα, καὶ εὐσταλέστατα περιβάλλειν, οἱο͂ν ἰγνύῃ‧ ὅπη δὲ περιτείνεται, ἁπλᾶ τε καὶ πλατέα, οἱο͂ν μύλῃ‧ προσπεριβάλλειν δὲ καταλήψιοσ μὲν τῶν περὶ ταῦτα εἵνεκα, ἀναλήψιοσ δὲ τοῦ ξύμπαντοσ ἐπιδέσμου, ἐν τοῖσιν ἀτρεμέουσι καὶ λαπαρωτέροισι τοῦ σώματοσ, οἱο͂ν τὸ ἄνω καὶ τὸ κάτω τοῦ γούνατοσ‧ ὁμολογέει δὲ ὤμου μὲν ἡ περὶ τὴν ἑτέρην μασχάλην περιβολὴ, βουβῶνοσ δὲ, ἡ περὶ τὸν ἕτερον ενεῶνα, καὶ κνήμησ, ἡ ὑπὲρ γαστροκνημίησ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., KAT' IHTREION., 9.4)

Synonyms

  1. mill

  2. nether millstone

  3. knee-pan

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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