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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

  • καὶ μῦσ χρυσοῦσ ὁμοίωμα τῶν μυῶν ὑμῶν τῶν διαφθειρόντων τὴν γῆν. καὶ δώσετε τῷ Κυρίῳ δόξαν, ὅπωσ κουφίσῃ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἀφ̓ ὑμῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν θεῶν ὑμῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 6:5)
  • ἐῶ λέγειν μυῶν πλῆθοσ ἢ μυγαλῶν ἐμπολιτευόμενον αὐτοῖσ ἐνίοτε. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 24:9)
  • ὡσ τούσ γεἝλληνασ ὁρᾷσ ὁποῖοί εἰσι, χαρίεντεσ μὲν καὶ εὐπρόσωποι καὶ κατὰ τέχνην ἐσχηματισμένοι, λίθινοι δὲ ἢ χαλκοῖ ὅμωσ ἅπαντεσ ἢ οἵ γε πολυτελέστατοι αὐτῶν ἐλεφάντινοι ὀλίγον ὅσον τοῦ χρυσοῦ ἐπιστίλβον ἔχοντεσ, ὡσ ἐπικεχράνθαι καὶ ἐπηυγάσθαι μόνον, τὰ δὲ ἔνδον ὑπόξυλοι καὶ οὗτοι, μυῶν ἀγέλασ ὅλασ ἐμπολιτευομένασ σκέποντεσ· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 8:1)
  • τὴν ἐσθῆτα δὲ ὀλιγωρίᾳ τῶν ἐπιμελητῶν κοσκινηδὸν διατερυπῆσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν βελτίστων μυῶν, ὡσ σαγήνησ θυννευτικῆσ μηδὲν διαφέρειν· (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 1 6:2)
  • οἷσ ζῶντεσ οὐδὲν μεταδιδόασιν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ τῶν μυῶν τῶν ἐν τοῖσ μετάλλοισ τὴν χρυσῖτιν ἐσθιόντων οὐκ ἔσται τοῦ χρυσίου μεταλαβεῖν, εἰ μὴ νεκρῶν γενομένων καὶ ἀνατμηθέντων. (Plutarch, De cupiditate divitiarum, section 7 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. mouse

  2. muscle

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