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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

  • μύραιναν δ’ ἐπέθηκε φέρων, προκάλυμμα τραπέζησ, ζώνην θ’, ἣν φορέεσκεν ἀγαλλομένη περὶ δειρήν, εἰσ λέχοσ ἡνίκ’ ἔβαινε Δρακοντιάδῃ μεγαθύμῳ σάνδαλα δ’ αὖ παρέθηκεν ἀειγενῆ ἀθανατάων, βούγλωσσὸν θ’,6 ὃσ ἔναιεν ἐν ἅλμῃ μορμυρούσῃ, κίχλασ δ’ ἑξείησ ἡβήτορασ ὑψιπετήεισ καὶ πέτρασ κάτα βοσκομένασ, ὑάδασ θ’ ὑδατινούσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 13:1)
  • Θεόφραστοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν ἐν τῷ ξηρῷ διαιτωμένων ἔγχελύν φησιν καὶ μύραιναν πολὺν χρόνον δύνασθαι ἔξω τοῦ ὑγροῦ ζῆν διὰ τὸ μικρὰ ἔχειν βράγχια καὶ ὀλίγον δέχεσθαι τὸ ὑγρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 902)
  • Δωρίων δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰχθύων τὴν ποταμίαν φησὶ μύραιναν ἔχειν μίαν ἄκανθαν μόνην, ὁμοίαν τῷ ὀνίσκῳ τῷ καλουμένῳ γαλλαρίᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 90 2:1)
  • Ἀνδρέασ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν ψευδῶσ πεπιστευμένων ψεῦδόσ φησιν εἶναι τὸ μύραιναν ἔχει μίγνυσθαι προερχομένην ἐπὶ τὸ τεναγῶδεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 90 3:1)
  • θρᾷτταν ἢ ψῆττὰν τιν’ ἢ μύραιναν ἢ κακὸν τί μοι δώσει μέγα θαλάττιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 138 3:9)
  • Ἐπίχαρμοσ δ’ ἐν Μούσαισ χωρὶσ τοῦ σ μυραίνασ αὐτὰσ καλεῖ οὑτωσὶ λέγων οὔτε οἱ γόγγρων τι παχέων οὔτε μυραινᾶν ἀπῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 90 1:2)

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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