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μειράκια (meirakia)

μειράκια is an Ancient Greek form of μειράκιον, meaning “lad, youth”. It is the vocative plural neuter noun.

Found 68 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.2.45: … σι. θεασάμενός ποτε μειράκιον λίθους βάλλον ἐπὶ σταυρόν, εὖγε, εἶπε, τεύξῃ γὰρ τοῦ σκοποῦ. πρὸς τὰ περιστάντα μειράκια καὶ εἰπόντα, βλέπωμεν μὴ δάκῃ ἡμᾶς, θαρρεῖτε, ἔφη, παιδία· κύων τευτλία οὐκ ἐσθίει. πρὸς τὸν ἐπὶ τῇ λεοντῇ θρ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 53.33.3: … υ μνημονεύεται γενόμενον· κἀν ταῖς ἀνοχαῖς δύο καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ἐπολιάρχησαν, καὶ εἷς γέ τις αὐτῶν οὐδʼ ἐς μειράκιά πω τελῶν ὅμως ἦρξεν.

All forms of μειράκιον (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.