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Νειλομέτριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: Νειλομέτριον Νειλομέτριου

Structure: Νειλομετρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Nilometer

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

  • ἡ δὲ Συήνη καὶ [ἡ] Ἐλεφαντίνη ἡ μὲν ἐπὶ τῶν ὁρ́ων τῆσ Αἰθιοπίασ καὶ τῆσ Αἰγύπτου πόλισ, ἡ δ’ ἐν τῷ Νείλῳ προκειμένη τῆσ Συήνησ νῆσοσ ἐν ἡμισταδίῳ καὶ ἐν ταύτῃ πόλισ ἔχουσα ἱερὸν Κνούφιδοσ καὶ νειλομέτριον, καθάπερ Μέμφισ. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 95:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ τὸ νειλομέτριον συννόμῳ λίθῳ κατεσκευασμένον ἐπὶ τῇ ὄχθῃ τοῦ Νείλου φρέαρ, ἐν ᾧ τὰσ ἀναβάσεισ τοῦ Νείλου σημειοῦνται τὰσ μεγίστασ τε καὶ ἐλαχίστασ καὶ τὰσ μέσασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 95:2)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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