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Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.ɡá.raː/ → /meˈɣa.ra/ → /meˈɣa.ra/
Proper noun
Μεγᾰ́ρᾱ • (Megárā) f (genitive Μεγᾰ́ρᾱς); first declension
- Megara, wife of Heracles
Inflection
Descendants
References
- “Μεγάρα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,016