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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

  • Ἆπισ μὲν οὖν εἰσ τυραννίδα τὴν ἑαυτοῦ μεταστήσασ δύναμιν καὶ βίαιοσ ὢν τύραννοσ, ὀνομάσασ ἀφ’ ἑαυτοῦ τὴν Πελοπόννησον Ἀπίαν, ὑπὸ Θελξίονοσ καὶ Τελχῖνοσ ἐπιβουλευθεὶσ ἄπαισ ἀπέθανε, καὶ νομισθεὶσ θεὸσ ἐκλήθη Σάραπισ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 1 1:5)
  • Αἰγιαλέωσ δὲ Εὔρωπα γενέσθαι φασίν, Εὔρωποσ δὲ Τελχῖνα, Τελχῖνοσ δὲ Ἆπιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 11:2)

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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