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Τελχίν

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τελχίν Τελχῖνος

Structure: Τελχιν (Stem)

Sense

  1. one of the Telchines
  2. a mischievous elf

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Τελχίν Τελχίνε Τελχίνες
Genitive Τελχίνος Τελχίνοιν Τελχίνων
Dative Τελχίνι Τελχίνοιν Τελχῖσιν*
Accusative Τελχίνα Τελχίνε Τελχίνας
Vocative Τελχίν Τελχίνε Τελχίνες

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

  • Αἰγιαλέωσ δὲ Εὔρωπα γενέσθαι φασίν, Εὔρωποσ δὲ Τελχῖνα, Τελχῖνοσ δὲ Ἆπιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 11:2)

Synonyms

  1. a mischievous elf

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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