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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μύραινα μυραίνᾱ μύραιναι
Genitive μυραίνης μυραίναιν μυραινῶν
Dative μυραίνῃ μυραίναιν μυραίναις
Accusative μύραιναν μυραίνᾱ μυραίνᾱς
Vocative μύραινα μυραίνᾱ μύραιναι

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

  • "σὺ μυραίνησ ἐν ζωγρείῳ σοι τρεφομένησ εἶτ’ ἀποθανούσησ ἔκλαυσασ; (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 5 6:1)
  • ι Ἀριστοτέλησ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ ζῴων ἠθῶν καὶ βίων φησὶν ὅτι ζῶσιν οἱ κεστρεῖσ κἂν ἀφαιρεθῶσι τὰσ κέρκουσ, ἀπεσθίεται δ’ ὁ μὲν κεστρεὺσ ὑπὸ λάβρακοσ, ὁ δὲ γόγγροσ ὑπὸ μυραίνησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 78 1:2)
  • Νίκανδροσ δ’ ἐν Θηριακοῖσ, μυραίνησ δ’ ἔκπαγλον, ἐπεὶ μογεροὺσ ἁλιῆασ πολλάκισ ἐμβρύξασα κατεπρήνιξεν ἐπάκτρων εἰσ ἅλα φυζηθέντασ, ἐχετλίου ἐξαναδῦσα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 90 2:3)
  • "οὐ σὺ μυραίνησ ἀποθανούσησ ἔκλαυσασ; (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 23 13:1)
  • "οὐ σὺ μυραίνησ ἐν κολυμβήθρᾳ σοι τρεφομένησ εἶτ’ ἀποθανούσησ ἔκλαυσασ; (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 14 33:2)

Synonyms

  1. a sea-serpent

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

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