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μηνο-ειδής

menoeides

crescent-shaped

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Where it lives

History 3 · 0.2/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

μηνο-ειδής · mēno-eidēs — LSJ

crescent-shaped, crescent, when partially eclipsed, crescent, lune-like

crescent-shaped, Hdt. 1.75, Th. 2.76, etc.; τομαί Arch.Pap. 4.271 (iii A. D.); τάξις, φάλαγξ, X. An. 5.2.13, Plu. Fab. 16; μηνοειδὲς ποιήσαντες τῶν νεῶν having formed them in a crescent, Hdt. 8.16; of the sun when partially eclipsed, Th. 2.28, X. HG 4.3.10; of the crescent moon, Gem. 9.7, Plu. Symp. 2.157b, Vett.Val. 106.31; μ. γωνία lune-like angle, Procl. in Euc. p.190.8, al. Adv. -δῶς Antyll. ap. Orib. 44.23.39, Philostr. VA 3.11, Longus 2.25.

In the wild

μηνοειδέα · mēnoeidea Herodotus, Histories 1.75.5 (DIORISIS sentence 517)
μηνοειδὲς · mēnoeides Herodotus, Histories 8.15.2 (DIORISIS sentence 8531)
μηνοειδὴς · mēnoeidēs Thucydides, History 2.28.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1140)
μηνοειδὲς · mēnoeides Thucydides, History 2.76.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1495)
μηνοειδοῦς · mēnoeidous Thucydides, History 7.34.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4982)
ʼμηνοειδὴς · ʼmēnoeidēs Xenophon, Anabasis 5.2.13 (DIORISIS sentence 2125)

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