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μῦς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μῦς μυός

Structure: μῡ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. mouse
  2. A type of mussel
  3. A type of whale
  4. muscle

Declension

Third 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

  • ΚΑΙ ἦν κιβωτὸσ ἐν ἀγρῷ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων ἑπτὰ μῆνασ, καὶ ἐξέζεσεν ἡ γῆ αὐτῶν μύασ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 6:1)
  • καὶ λέγει ὅτι μύασ τε ἐθήρων τοὺσ θαλασσίουσ οἱ στρατιῶται, καὶ ὄστρεα δὲ καὶ τοὺσ σωλῆνασ καλεομένουσ, ἄτοπα τὸ μέγαθοσ, ὡσ τοῖσιν ἐν τῇδε τῇ ἡμετέρῃ θαλάσσῃ συμβαλέειν· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 21 14:2)
  • φυτάλμιον καὶ εὔκαρπον τῶν ἡμερωτάτων καὶ βιωφελεστάτων καρπῶν, ἀλλ’ ἰδών που καὶ κροκόδειλον ἐννηχόμενον καὶ ἀσπίδα κατασυρομένην καὶ μύασ, ἄγρια ζῷα καὶ μιαρά, ταύτασ λέγοι τὰσ αἰτίασ τῆσ μέμψεωσ καὶ τῆσ τοῦ πράγματοσ ἀνάγκησ· (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 3 2:1)
  • μύασ ἀναρίτασ τε κάρυκάσ τε καὶ σκιφύδρια, τὰ γλυκέα μὲν ἐντ’ ἐπέσθειν, ἐμπαγῆμεν δ’ ὀξέα, τούσ τε μακρογογγύλουσ σωλῆνασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 30 1:1)
  • Διοκλῆσ δ’ ὁ Καρύστιοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ὑγιεινοῖσ κράτιστά φησιν εἶναι τῶν κογχυλίων πρὸσ διαχώρησιν καὶ οὔρησιν μύασ, ὄστρεα, κτένασ, χήμασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 321)

Synonyms

  1. mouse

  2. muscle

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