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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

  • διετέλουν δὲ καὶ ἄνευ χιτῶνοσ, ἓν ἱμάτιον εἰσ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν λαμβάνοντεσ, αὐχμηροὶ τὰ σώματα καὶ λουτρῶν καὶ ἀλειμμάτων κατὰ τὸ πλεῖστον ἀπεχόμενοι. (Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, section 5 1:1)
  • εἰσ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν λαμβάνοντεσ, αὐχμηροὶ τὰ σώματα καὶ λουτρῶν καὶ ἀλειμμάτων κατὰ τὸ πλεῖστον ἀπεχόμενοι. (Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, section 5 1:1)
  • γενόμενοι δὲ δωδεκαετεῖσ ἄνευ χιτῶνοσ ἤδη διετέλουν, ἓν ἱμάτιον εἰσ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν λαμβάνοντεσ, αὐχμηροὶ τὰ σώματα καὶ λουτρῶν καὶ ἀλειμμάτων ἄπειροι· (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 16 6:3)
  • παραδοθεῖσα δὲ αὕτη τινὶ τῶν εὐνούχων εἰσ ἐπιμέλειαν πάσησ ἐτύγχανε προνοίασ ἀρωμάτων ἀφθονίᾳ καὶ πολυτελείᾳ τῶν ἀλειμμάτων ὧν χρῄζει τὰ σώματα καταρδομένη, καὶ τούτων ἀπέλαυον ἐπὶ μῆνασ ἓξ τετρακόσιαι τὸν ἀριθμὸν οὖσαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 11 240:1)

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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