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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

  • ἡ δὲ φιλοξείνων θαλάμων κληῖδασ ἀνεῖσα ἐξαπίνησ Ἑλένη μετεκίαθε δώματοσ αὐλὴν καὶ θαλερῶν προπάροιθεν ὀπιπεύουσα θυράων ὡσ ἴδεν, ὣσ ἐκάλεσσε καὶ ἐσ μυχὸν ἤγαγεν οἴκου καί μιν ἐφεδρήσσειν νεοπηγέοσ ὑψόθεν ἕδρησ ἀργυρέησ ἐπέτελλε· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1121)
  • σὺ δ’ αὖ, τὸ σόν, παράσχεσ Αἴγαιον πόρον τρικυμίαισ βρέμοντα καὶ δίναισ ἁλόσ, πλῆσον δὲ νεκρῶν κοῖλον Εὐβοίασ μυχόν, ὡσ ἂν τὸ λοιπὸν τἄμ’ ἀνάκτορ’ εὐσεβεῖν εἰδῶσ’ Ἀχαιοί, θεούσ τε τοὺσ ἄλλουσ σέβειν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 2:28)
  • καὶ πολυώνυμε θηροφόνη παῖ Λατοῦσ χρυσώπιδοσ ἔρνοσ, σύ τε πόντιε σεμνὲ Πόσειδον ἁλιμέδον προλιπὼν μυχὸν ἰχθυόεντ’ οἰστροδόνητον, Νηρέοσ ἐναλίου τε κόραι Νύμφαι τ’ ὀρείπλαγκτοι. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parodos, lyric3)
  • ἐπὶ δ’ ἀσφάκτοισ μήλοισι δόμων μὴ πάριτ’ ἐσ μυχόν. (Euripides, Ion, choral, antistrophe 210)
  • ἔνθ’ οἳ μὲν ἐπ’ ἄκραισι πυραῖσ νέκυεσ ἔκειντο γῆσ ἐπὶ ξένησ, ὀρφανὰ τείχεα προλιπόντεσ Ἑλλάδοσ ἱερῆσ καὶ μυχὸν ἑστίησ πατρῴησ, ἥβην τ’ ἐρατὴν καὶ καλὸν ἡλίου πρόσωπον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 416)

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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