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μέγας
μέγας
Ancient Greek
Adjective
μέγᾰς • (mégas) m (feminine μεγάλη, neuter μέγᾰ); first/second declension
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | μέγᾰς | μεγᾰ́λη | μέγᾰ | μεγᾰ́λω | μεγᾰ́λᾱ | μεγᾰ́λω | μεγᾰ́λοι | μέγᾰλαι | μεγᾰ́λᾰ | ||||
| Genitive | μεγᾰ́λου | μεγᾰ́λης | μεγᾰ́λου | μεγᾰ́λοιν | μεγᾰ́λαιν | μεγᾰ́λοιν | μεγᾰ́λων | μεγᾰ́λων | μεγᾰ́λων | ||||
| Dative | μεγᾰ́λῳ | μεγᾰ́λῃ | μεγᾰ́λῳ | μεγᾰ́λοιν | μεγᾰ́λαιν | μεγᾰ́λοιν | μεγᾰ́λοις | μεγᾰ́λαις | μεγᾰ́λοις | ||||
| Accusative | μέγᾰν | μεγᾰ́λην | μέγᾰ | μεγᾰ́λω | μεγᾰ́λᾱ | μεγᾰ́λω | μεγᾰ́λους | μεγᾰ́λᾱς | μεγᾰ́λᾰ | ||||
| Vocative | μεγᾰ́λε, μέγᾰς | μεγᾰ́λη | μέγᾰ | μεγᾰ́λω | μεγᾰ́λᾱ | μεγᾰ́λω | μεγᾰ́λοι | μέγᾰλαι | μεγᾰ́λᾰ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| μεγᾰ́λως, μέγᾰ | μείζων; Koine μειζότερος, μεγαλώτερος |
μέγιστος; Koine μεγαλώτατος |
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| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
References
- μέγας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- μέγας in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- μέγας in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «μέγας» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «μέγας» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- μέγας in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G3173”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ample idem, page 28.
- big idem, page 78.
- bulky idem, page 103.
- burly idem, page 105.
- capacious idem, page 111.
- commodious idem, page 148.
- considerable idem, page 163.
- distinct idem, page 241.
- enormous idem, page 276.
- extensive idem, page 296.
- gigantic idem, page 359.
- great idem, page 372.
- heavy idem, page 393.
- large idem, page 476.
- loud idem, page 501.
- lusty idem, page 505.
- mighty idem, page 528.
- palatial idem, page 589.
- potent idem, page 629.
- powerful idem, page 630.
- resonant idem, page 703.
- severe idem, page 759.
- spacious idem, page 797.
- stentorian idem, page 815.
- stout idem, page 821.
- strong idem, page 827.
- sturdy idem, page 830.
- substantial idem, page 832.
- tall idem, page 854.
- vast idem, page 945.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 311