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ἄλειμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλειμμα ἄλειμματος

Structure: ἀλειμματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)lei/fw

Sense

  1. anything used for anointing, unguent, fat, oil

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

  • τὸ δὲ χρίσασθαι τῷ τοιούτῳ ἀλείμματι μυρίσασθαι εἴρηκεν Ἀλκαῖοσ ἐν Παλαίστρᾳ διὰ τούτων μυρίσασά συγκατέκλεισεν ἀνθ’ αὑτῆσ λάθρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 431)
  • Βαίτων γοῦν ὁ Ἀλεξάνδρου βηματιστὴσ ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ Σταθμοὶ τῆσ Ἀλεξάνδρου πορείασ καὶ Ἀμύντασ ἐν τοῖσ Σταθμοῖσ τὸ τῶν Ταπύρων ἔθνοσ φησὶν οὕτω φίλοινον εἶναι ὡσ καὶ ἀλείμματι ἄλλῳ μηδενὶ χρῆσθαι ἢ τῷ οἴνῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 59 1:1)
  • ἠδὲ ἀνακαλέσασθαι τῶν ἄκρων τὴν θέρμην γλευκίνῳ ἢ σικυωνίῳ λίπαϊ ξὺν πεπέρεϊ, καὶ τῷ καστορίῳ, καὶ νίτρῳ, καὶ κάχρυ, κηροῦ σμικρὸν ἐντήκοντα, ὡσ ποθίζῃ τὸ χρῖσμα· καὶ διὰ τῆσ λιμνήστιδοσ, ἠδ’ εὐφορβίου, καὶ δάφνησ τοῦ καρποῦ ἀλείμματι , ἐπανάκλη σι ν θέρμησ ποιέεσθα ι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 177)
  • ἐσ δὲ τὸν θώρηκα, μαστίχην, ἀλόην, ἀψινθίου κόμην λείαν ξὺν κηρωτῇ ναρδίνῳ ἢ οἰνάνθησ, ἐπιπλάσαι ὅλῳ τῷ θώρηκι· ἐσ δὲ τοὺσ πόδασ καὶ τοὺσ μύασ, ἢν τιταίνωνται, σικυώνιον, γλεύκινον, ἢ παλαιὸν ἄλειφα, ξὺν κηρῷ σμικρῷ χρίειν· ἐπιπάσσειν δὲ καὶ τοῦ κάστοροσ· ἢν δὲ καὶ ψυχροὶ ἐώσι οἱ πόδεσ, καὶ τῷ διὰ τῆσ λιμνήστιδοσ καὶ εὐφορβίου χρίειν ἀλείμματι, καὶ ἐρίοισι ἀμφελίσσειν, καὶ ψηλαφίῃ χειρῶν ἀπιθύνειν· ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν Ῥάχιν, καὶ τοὺσ τένοντα σ καὶ τοὺσ μύασ τῶν τε σιηγόνων, τοῖσι αὐτέοισι χρίειν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 206)
  • καὶ κατακλίσει συνθάλποντεσ, μεθ’ ἡμέραν δὲ λουτρῷ καὶ ἀλείμματι καὶ σιτίοισ, ὅσα μὴ ταράττοντα τὸν ὄγκον ἅμα πράωσ ἀνακαλεῖται τὸ θερμὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ οἴνου διεσπασμένον καὶ πεφυγαδευμένον ἐκ τοῦ σώματοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 11:1)
  • καὶ τὰ πάντα θερμὰ ἐσ δύναμιν καὶ ἐσ θίξιν ἔστω· χρίειν δὲ τῷ διὰ τῆσ λημνήστιδοσ, καὶ εὐφορβίου, καὶ νίτρου, καὶ πυρέθρου ἀλείμματι· προσβάλλειν δὲ τοῖσδε τοῦ καστορίου συχνόν· εὖ δὲ καὶ τοὺσ τένοντασ ξυλλαμβ άνειν τοῖσι ἐρίοισι, καὶ χρίειν καὶ τὰ παρ’ οὖσ καὶ ἀνθερεῶνα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 239)

Synonyms

  1. anything used for anointing

Related

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

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