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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

  • πάρεστίν νιν ἀγχιάλοισ[ι Κρίσ]ασ μυχοῖσ μοῦνον ἐπιχθονίων τάδε μησάμενον στεφάνοισ ἐρέπτειν δύο τ’ Ὀλυμπιονίκασ ἀείδειν. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 4 Pu/qia.> 2:8)
  • τοὐμοῦ γὰρ ὄντοσ παιδὸσ ἐν μυχοῖσ χθονὸσ ὁ καινὸσ οὗτοσ τῆσδε γῆσ ἄρχων Λύκοσ τοὺσ Ἡρακλείουσ παῖδασ ἐξελεῖν θέλει κτανὼν δάμαρτά <θ’>, ὡσ φόνῳ σβέσῃ φόνον, κἄμ’ ‐ εἴ τι δὴ χρὴ κἄμ’ ἐν ἀνδράσιν λέγειν γέροντ’ ἀχρεῖον ‐ μή ποθ’ οἵδ’ ἠνδρωμένοι μήτρωσιν ἐκπράξωσιν αἵματοσ δίκην. (Euripides, Heracles, episode 2:4)
  • ὡσ πολὺν ἀπῆσθα χρόνον ἐν Αὐλίδοσ μυχοῖσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 2:27)
  • ἐν δ’ ἄντρου μυχοῖσ κρύψασ γυναῖκα τὴν κακῶν πάντων ἐμοὶ ἄρξασαν ἥκω τούσ τε περιλελειμμένουσ φίλων φυλάσσειν τἄμ’ ἀναγκάσασ λέχη. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 1:11)
  • φήμη τισ οἴκων ἐν μυχοῖσ ἱδρυμένη; (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 3:34)

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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