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ἄκυλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 식물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκυλος

Structure: ἀκυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. an acorn, the fruit of the ilex

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

  • ὣσ οἱ μὲν κλαίοντεσ ἐέρχατο, τοῖσι δὲ Κίρκη πάρ ῥ’ ἄκυλον βάλανόν τε βάλεν καρπόν τε κρανείησ ἔδμεναι, οἱᾶ σύεσ χαμαιευνάδεσ αἰὲν ἔδουσιν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 23:9)

Synonyms

  1. an acorn

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

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