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μύρτον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύρτον μύρτου

Structure: μυρτ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from mu/rtos

Sense

  1. a myrtle-berry

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μύρτον μύρτω μύρτα
Genitive μύρτου μύρτοιν μύρτων
Dative μύρτῳ μύρτοιν μύρτοις
Accusative μύρτον μύρτω μύρτα
Vocative μύρτον μύρτω μύρτα

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἐμοῦ μὲν οὐ τυραννεύσουσ’, ἐπεὶ φυλάξομαι καὶ φορήσω τὸ ξίφοσ τὸ λοιπὸν ἐν μύρτου κλαδί, ἀγοράσω τ’ ἐν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ ἑξῆσ Ἀριστογείτονι, ὧδέ θ’ ἑστήξω παρ’ αὐτόν· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, trochees3)
  • ι# ἐν μύρτου κλαδὶ τὸ ξίφοσ φορήσω, ὥσπερ Ἁρμόδιοσ καὶ Ἀριστογείτων, ὅτε τὸν τύραννον κτανέτην ἰσονόμουσ τ’ ’ Ἀθήνασ ἐποιησάτην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 4:5)
  • ἐν μύρτου κλαδὶ τὸ ξίφοσ φορήσω, ὥσπερ Ἁρμόδιοσ καὶ Ἀριστογείτων, ὅτ’ Ἀθηναίησ ἐν θυσίαισ ἄνδρα τύραννον Ἵππαρχον ἐκαινέτην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. a myrtle-berry

Related

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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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