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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

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

  • 699ξ νῦν δὲ τὸ μὲν Τελχῖνεσ ἐπιτρύζουσιν ἀεικὲσ νήϊδεσ οἳ Μούσησ οὐκ ἐγένοντο φίλοι, εἵνεκεν οὐχ ἓν ἀείσμα διηνεκέσ, ἢ βασιλῆασ κλῄσασ, ἐν πολλαῖσ ἤνυσα χιλιάσιν, ἢ ἀρχαίουσ ἡρ́ωασ, ἔποσ δ’ ἐπὶ τυτθὸν ἑλίσσω παῖσ ἅτε· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , prop. i. 9. 931)
  • τὴν δὲ νῆσον τὴν ὀνομαζομένην Ῥόδον πρῶτοι κατῴκησαν οἱ προσαγορευόμενοι Τελχῖνεσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 55 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mischievous elf

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

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