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μῦθος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μῦθος μύθου

Structure: μυθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. something said: word, speech, conversation
  2. public speech
  3. (mostly in plural) talk, conversation
  4. advice, counsel, command, order, promise
  5. the subject of a speech or talk
  6. a resolve, purpose, design, plan
  7. saying, proverb
  8. the talk of men, rumor, report, message
  9. tale, story, narrative
  10. tale, legend, myth
  11. a professed work of fiction, fable, such as those of Aesop

Declension

Second 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

  • πείσασα μύθοισ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 5:38)
  • ἀλλ’ ἡσύχαζε καὶ δακρυρρόουσ τέκνων πηγὰσ ἀφαίρει καὶ παρευκήλει λόγοισ, κλέπτουσα μύθοισ ἀθλίουσ κλοπὰσ ὅμωσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode 3:25)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀληθείασ μέλει αὐτοῖσ, οἶμαι, ἀλλὰ τοῦ κηλεῖν τοὺσ ἀκούοντασ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μέτροισ τε κατᾴδουσι καὶ μύθοισ κατηχοῦσι καὶ ὅλωσ ἅπαντα ὑπὲρ τοῦ τερπνοῦ μηχανῶνται. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 39:7)
  • 0ὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ ὁμοίωσ ἡδὺ, οἶμαι, μόνον ἐμπίπλασθαι, ὥσπερ τοὺσ λέοντάσ φασι καὶ τοὺσ μονιοὺσ τῶν λύκων, καὶ συνόντασ δεξιοῖσ ἀνδράσι καὶ πάντα χαρίζεσθαι πειρωμενοισ, οἳ πρῶτα μὲν οὐ κωφὸν καὶ ἄφωνον ἐάσουσι τὸ συμπόσιον εἶναι, ἀλλ̓ ἐν μύθοισ συμποτικοῖσ καὶ σκώμμασιν ἀνεπαχθέσι καὶ φιλοφροσύναισ ποικίλαισ συνέσονται, οἱαῖ ἥδισται διατριβαί, φίλαι μὲν Διονύσῳ καὶ Ἀφροδίτῃ, φίλαι δὲ Χάρισιν, ἔπειτα δὲ πρὸσ ἅπαντασ ἐσ τὴν ὑστεραίαν διηγούμενοι ὑμῶν τὴν δεξιότητα φιλεῖσθαι παρασκευάσουσι. (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 4:1)
  • ὃ βούλομαι γάρ, ἡδὺ καὶ διὰ στόμα πτηνοῖσι μύθοισ ἀδαπάνωσ τέρψαι φρένα. (Euripides, episode, anapests 5:10)

Synonyms

  1. public speech

  2. talk

  3. advice

  4. a resolve

  5. saying

  6. tale

  7. tale

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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