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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

  • ἄλλο δὲ οὐδὲν ὑπόμνημα ἦν ἐνταῦθα τῶν μύθων τῶν ἀμφὶ τὸν Ιἄσονα. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 9 3:2)
  • , Ἀσσυρίων δὲ καὶ Ἀράβων οἱ ἐξηγηταὶ τῶν μύθων, Ἰνδῶν δὲ οἱ καλούμενοι Βραχμᾶνεσ, ἄνδρεσ ἀκριβῶσ φιλοσοφίᾳ σχολάζοντεσ, καὶ οἱ καλούμενοι δὲ μάγοι, γένοσ τοῦτο μαντικὸν καὶ θεοῖσ ἀνακείμενον παρά τε Πέρσαισ καὶ Πάρθοισ καὶ Βάκτροισ καὶ Χωρασμίοισ καὶ Ἀρείοισ καὶ Σάκαισ καὶ Μήδοισ καὶ παρὰ πολλοῖσ ἄλλοισ βαρβάροισ, ἐρρωμένοι τέ εἰσι καὶ πολυχρόνιοι διὰ τὸ μαγεύειν διαιτώμενοι καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀκριβέστερον. (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 4:2)
  • δέξαιτο νέων κληδόνα μύθων, οἳ τετράμοιρον νυκτὸσ φυλακὴν πάσησ στρατιᾶσ προκάθηνται. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, anapests3)
  • εἶθ’ ἡ Κόρινθοσ πλέα καὶ αὕτη μύθων, τὴν Γλαύκην καὶ τὸν Κρέοντα ἔχουσα, καὶ πρὸ αὐτῶν τὸν Βελλεροφόντην καὶ τὴν Σθενέβοιαν καὶ Ἡλίου μάχην καὶ Ποσειδῶνοσ, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα τὴν Ἀθάμαντοσ μανίαν καὶ τῶν Νεφέλησ παίδων ἐπὶ τοῦ κριοῦ τὴν ; (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 42:1)
  • τὼ Θησείδα δ’, ὄζω Ἀθηνῶν, δισσῶν μύθων ῥήτορεσ ἦσαν· (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests7)

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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