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μύραινα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύραινα

Structure: μυραιν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a sea-serpent

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

  • μύραιναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 901)
  • ἐκπίπτουσι γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ πελάγουσ ὑπερμεγέθεισ οὐ μόνον σκορπίοι καὶ μύραιναι καὶ κύνεσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ φῶκαι καὶ πολλὰ τοιαῦτα ξένα καὶ ταῖσ ὄψεσι καὶ ταῖσ προσηγορίαισ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 15 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a sea-serpent

Related

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

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