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ἀκόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκόνη

Structure: ἀκον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)kh/ I

Sense

  1. a whetstone, hone

Declension

First 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

  • τῆσ ἀκόνησ, ἡ δὲ ἀκμὴ τοῦ σιδήρου δι’ ὅλου κατελθοῦσα τοῦ λίθου τήν τε ἀκόνην διαιρεῖ καὶ τῆσ κατεχούσησ αὐτὴν χειρὸσ ἐπιτέμνει τι μέροσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 71 7:1)
  • Ὑγρῶν‧ ἐβένου δραχμὴν μίην, χαλκοῦ κεκαυμένου ἐννέα ὀβολοὺσ ἐπ’ ἀκόνησ τρίβων, κρόκου τριώβολον‧ ταῦτα τρίψασ λεῖα, παράχεε οἴνου γλυκέοσ κοτύλην ἀττικὴν, κἄπειτα ἐσ τὸν ἥλιον θεὶσ, κατακαλύψασ‧ ὁκόταν ξυνεψηθῇ, τούτῳ χρέο. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 33.1)

Synonyms

  1. a whetstone

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

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