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μύωψ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μύωψ μύωπος

Structure: μυωπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mu/w, w)/y

Sense

  1. contracting the eyes, shortsighted
  2. the horsefly or gadfly
  3. a good, spur, a stimulant

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

  • ὁ δὲ τοῦτο κωλῦσαι βουλόμενοσ, ἦν δὲ ὄψισ οὐχ ὡσ στρατηγῶν μαχομένων, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ θηρίῳ πρὸσ ἀλκὴν ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ τρεπομένῳ δεινοῦ κυνηγέτου τοῦ Φιλοποίμενοσ συνεστῶτοσ,, ἔνθα ὁ μὲν ἵπποσ τοῦ τυράννου ῥωμαλέοσ ὢν καὶ θυμοειδὴσ καὶ τοῖσ μύωψιν αἱμαχθεὶσ ἑκατέρωθεν ἐπετόλμησε τῇ διαβάσει, καὶ προσβαλὼν τῇ τάφρῳ τὸ στῆθοσ ἐβιάζετο τοῖσ προσθίοισ πέραν ἐρείσασθαι σκέλεσιν. (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 10 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. contracting the eyes

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

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