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μυρσίνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυρσίνη

Structure: μυρσιν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a branch or wreath of myrtle

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

  • θήσω εἰσ τὴν ἄνυδρον γῆν κέδρον καὶ πύξον καὶ μυρσίνην καὶ κυπάρισσον καὶ λεύκην, (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 41:19)
  • πότερον, ὡσ οἱ μυθολογοῦντεσ ἱστοροῦσι, Φαύνου μὲν ἦν γυνὴ τοῦ μάντεωσ, οἴνῳ δὲ χρησαμένη κρύφα καὶ μὴ λαθοῦσα ῥάβδοισ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἐκολάσθη μυρσίνησ, ὅθεν μυρσίνην μὲν οὐκ εἰσφέρουσιν, οἶνον δ’ αὐτῇ σπένδουσι, γάλα προσαγορεύουσαι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 202)
  • τὴν οὖν μυρσίνην ὡσ ἱερὰν Ἀφροδίτησ ἀφοσιοῦνται· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 20 1:3)
  • μάντεωσ, οἴνῳ δὲ χρησαμένη κρύφα καὶ μὴ λαθοῦσα ῥάβδοισ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἐκολάσθη μυρσίνησ ὅθεν μυρσίνην μὲν οὐκ εἰσφέρουσιν, οἶνον δ’ αὐτῇ σπένδουσι, γάλα προσαγορεύουσαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 20 1:1)
  • τὴν οὖν μυρσίνην ὡσ ἱερὰν Ἀφροδίτησ ἀφοσιοῦνται· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 20 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a branch or wreath of myrtle

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

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