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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

  • Ἀνδρέασ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ δακέτων τῶν μυραινῶν φησιν δακούσασ ἀναιρεῖν τὰσ ἐξ ἔχεωσ, εἶναι δ’ αὐτὰσ ἧττον καὶ περιφερεῖσ καὶ ποικίλασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 90 2:2)

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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