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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

  • ἐλθόντα δὴ αὐτὸν καὶ θεασάμενον ὑπ’ ἄλλῳ τὴν σχολήν, ἑλέσθαι περίπατον τὸν ἐν Λυκείῳ καὶ μέχρι μὲν ἀλείμματοσ ἀνακάμπτοντα τοῖσ μαθηταῖσ συμφιλοσοφεῖν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. a'. ARISTOTELHS 2:4)

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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