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ἄλφιτον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλφιτον ἀλφίτου

Structure: ἀλφιτ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: a)lfo/s

Sense

  1. barley-groats
  2. meal, groats
  3. (figuratively) one's daily bread, 'bread and cheese'

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

  • καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ Βοόζ. ἤδη ὥρα τοῦ φαγεῖν, πρόσελθε ὧδε καὶ φάγεσαι τῶν ἄρτων καὶ βάψεισ τὸν ψωμόν σου ἐν τῷ ὄξει. καὶ ἐκάθισε Ροὺθ ἐκ πλαγίων τῶν θεριζόντων, καὶ ἐβούνισεν αὐτῇ Βοὸζ ἄλφιτον, καὶ ἔφαγε καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη καὶ κατέλιπε. (Septuagint, Liber Ruth 2:14)
  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἰεσσαὶ πρὸσ Δαυίδ. λαβὲ δὴ τοῖσ ἀδελφοῖσ σου οἰφὶ τοῦ ἀλφίτου καὶ δέκα ἄρτουσ τούτουσ καὶ διάδραμε εἰσ τὴν παρεμβολὴν καὶ δὸσ τοῖσ ἀδελφοῖσ σου, (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:38)
  • καὶ ἔσπευσεν Ἀβιγαία καὶ ἔλαβε διακοσίουσ ἄρτουσ καὶ δύο ἀγγεῖα οἴνου καὶ πέντε πρόβατα πεποιημένα καὶ πέντε οἰφὶ ἀλφίτου καὶ γόμορ ἓν σταφίδοσ καὶ διακοσίασ παλάθασ καὶ ἔθετο ἐπὶ τοὺσ ὄνους (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 25:18)
  • ἤνεγκαν δέκα κοίτασ καὶ ἀμφιτάπουσ καὶ λέβητασ δέκα καὶ σκεύη κεράμου καὶ πυροὺσ καὶ κριθὰσ καὶ ἄλευρον καὶ ἄλφιτον καὶ κύαμον καὶ φακὸν (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 17:28)
  • καὶ ἔδωκε τῇ ἅβρᾳ αὐτῆσ ἀσκοπυτίνην οἴνου καὶ καψάκην ἐλαίου καὶ πήραν ἐπλήρωσεν ἀλφίτων καὶ παλάθησ καὶ ἄρτων καθαρῶν καὶ περιεδίπλωσε πάντα τὰ ἀγγεῖα αὐτῆσ καὶ ἐπέθηκεν ἐπ̓ αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 10:5)
  • ἃ δ’ ἦν ἡμῖν πρὸ τοῦ αὐταῖσ ταμιεῦσαι καὶ προαιρούσαισ λαθεῖν ἄλφιτον ἔλαιον οἶνον, οὐδὲ ταῦτ’ ἔτι ἔξεστιν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene28)
  • τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶ πόσισ ἐν τῷ κράματι τυρὸν ἔχουσα καὶ ἄλφιτον· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 83 1:1)
  • ἐπιπλάσματα τῇσι σκληρίῃσι καὶ τῇσι ἐντάσεσι τῶν μερέων ἐπιθετέον· ὕλη δὲ, λίνου σπέρμα, τῆλισ, ἄλφιτον κρίθινον, μέλι, ἔλαιον ἔνθα πήγανον ἢ ἄνηθον ἐζέσθη, ἀλθαίησ Ῥίζα κοπεῖσα καὶ ἐν μελικρήτῳ ἑψηθεῖσα, ὡσ κηροειδὴσ γενέσθαι· ἔστω δὲ εὐαφέα καὶ προσηνέα τῇ ξυστάσι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 183)

Synonyms

  1. barley-groats

  2. meal

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