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μυχός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μυχός μυχοῦ

Structure: μυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mu/w

Sense

  1. the innermost place, inmost nook or corner
  2. the inmost part of a house, the women's apartments
  3. a bay or creek

Declension

Second 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

  • φεῦ μόχθων, οἱών, ὦ τάλασ, ὀρεχθεὶσ ἔρρεισ, τρίποδοσ ἄπο φάτιν, ἃν ὁ Φοῖβοσ ἔλακε, δε‐ ξάμενοσ ἀνὰ δάπεδον, ἵνα μεσόμφαλοι λέγονται μυχοί. (Euripides, choral, strophe 12)
  • Αἵδου τινὲσ ἀνοίγονται πύλαι βαθεῖαι, καὶ ποταμοὶ πυρὸσ ὁμοῦ καὶ Στυγὸσ ἀπορρῶγεσ ἀνακεράννυνται , καὶ σκότοσ ἐμπίπλαται πολυφαντάστων εἰδώλων τινῶν χαλεπὰσ μὲν ὄψεισ οἰκτρὰσ δὲ φωνὰσ ἐπιφερόντων, δικασταὶ δὲ καὶ κολασταὶ καὶ χάσματα καὶ μυχοὶ μυρίων κακῶν γέμοντεσ. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 4 12:1)
  • εἶκε δέ μοι Γαῖα, Θαλάσσασ τε μυχοί, χάλκεοσ Οὐρανόσ τε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 24 2:2)
  • ἐπιτάφιον εἰσ Μαρτινιανόν εἴ τισ Τάνταλόσ ἐστιν ἐν ὕδασιν αὐο͂σ ἀπίστοισ, εἴ τισ ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆσ πέτροσ ἀεὶ φοβέων, δαπτόμενόν τ’ ὄρνισιν ἀγήραον ἧπαρ ἀλιτροῦ, καὶ πυρόεισ ποταμὸσ, καὶ ζόφοσ ἀθάνατοσ, ταρτάρεοί τε μυχοὶ καὶ δαίμονεσ ἀγριόθυμοι, ἄλλαι τε φθιμένων τίσιεσ εἰν ἀίδι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 1041)

Synonyms

  1. the inmost part of a house

  2. a bay or creek

Related

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

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