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κύπρος

Second declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύπρος κύπρου

Structure: κυπρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. henna (Lawsonia inermis)

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

  • Κυπρογενέα δ’, ὅτι γέντο πολυκλύστῳ ἐνὶ Κύπρῳ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 22:12)
  • ἐμοὶ γὰρ ἁνὴρ ἀπέθανεν μὲν ἐν Κύπρῳ παιδάρια πέντε καταλιπών, ἁγὼ μόλισ στεφανηπλοκοῦσ’ ἔβοσκον ἐν ταῖσ μυρρίναισ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:4)
  • ἐν Κύπρῳ δὲ παρὰ Νικοκρέοντι δειπνῶν ἐπῄνεσε ποτήριόν τι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 18 3:7)
  • εἶναι δ’ ἀρίστην ἐν Κύπρῳ καὶ Λήμνῳ, ἔτι δὲ Στρογγύλῃ καὶ Ἔρυκι καὶ Κυθήροισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 28 4:2)
  • "αὕτη δ’ ἐν Κύπρῳ φύεται ὀρεινὴ καὶ πολύοσμοσ, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι οὐ γίνεται διὰ τὸ ἀόσμον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:46)

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