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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

  • ἐπεμελεῖτο δὲ καὶ τῆσ ὄψεωσ, τήν τε τρίχα τὴν ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ξανθιζόμενοσ καὶ παιδέρωτι τὸ πρόσωπον ὑπαλειφόμενοσ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἀλείμμασιν ἐγχρίων ἑαυτόν ἠβούλετο γὰρ τὴν ὄψιν ἱλαρὸσ καὶ τοῖσ ἀπαντῶσιν ἡδὺσ φαίνεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 60 2:1)
  • ὅσα τισ ἄλλοσ ἄλλον πημαίνει φαρμάκοισ, τὰ μὲν θανάσιμα αὐτῶν διείρηται, τῶν δ’ ἄλλων πέρι βλάψεων, εἴτε τισ ἄρα πώμασιν ἢ καὶ βρώμασιν ἢ ἀλείμμασιν ἑκὼν ἐκ προνοίασ πημαίνει, τούτων οὐδέν πω διερρήθη. (Plato, Laws, book 11 131:1)
  • οὐδεὶσ δ’ ἂν οὔτε λουτροῖσ οὔτ’ ἀλείμμασιν οὔτε στρωμναῖσ προείλετο χρῆσθαι, οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ πρὸσ τὰ ἀφροδίσια προσελθεῖν ἂν ἐτόλμησεν, ἀλλὰ καθάπερ ἀγαπητοῦ τέκνου τελευτήσαντοσ ἕκαστοσ περιώδυνοσ γινόμενοσ ἐπένθει τὰσ εἰρημένασ ἡμέρασ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 72 3:1)

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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