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ἁλουργίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁλουργίς ἁλουργίδος

Structure: ἁλουργιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a(lourgh/s

Sense

  1. purple robe
  2. (attributive, with ἐσθής, false reading in Lucian, The Ship 22) purple robe

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἁλουργίς ἁλουργίδε ἁλουργίδες
Genitive ἁλουργίδος ἁλουργίδοιν ἁλουργίδων
Dative ἁλουργίδι ἁλουργίδοιν ἁλουργίσιν*
Accusative ἁλουργίδα ἁλουργίδε ἁλουργίδας
Vocative ἁλουργί ἁλουργίδε ἁλουργίδες

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

  • λέγεται δὲ καὶ βασιλεύσ τισ Αἰγύπτιοσ πιθήκουσ ποτὲ πυρριχίζειν διδάξαι καὶ τὰ θηρία ‐ μιμηλότατα δέ ἐστι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ‐ ἐκμαθεῖν τάχιστα καὶ ὀρχεῖσθαι ἁλουργίδασ ἀμπεχόμενα καὶ προσωπεῖα περικείμενα, καὶ μέχρι γε πολλοῦ εὐδοκιμεῖν τὴν θέαν, ἄχρι δὴ θεατήσ τισ ἀστεῖοσ κάρυα ὑπὸ κόλπου ^ ἔχων ἀφῆκεν εἰσ τὸ μέσον· (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 36:5)
  • ἔθοσ δὲ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ μέχρι τῆσ τῶν ἐφήβων ἡλικίασ ἁλουργίδασ τε φορεῖν καὶ πλοκαμῖδασ ἀναδεδεμένουσ χρυσοφορεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 161)
  • τάχα δὴ μεμψόμεθα τὴν Πυθίαν, ὅτι Γλαύκησ οὐ φθέγγεται τῆσ κιθαρῳδοῦ λιγυρώτερον, οὐδὲ χριομένη μύροισ οὐδ’ ἁλουργίδασ ἀμπεχομένη κάτεισιν εἰσ τὸ ἄδυτον, οὐδ’ ἐπιθυμιᾷ κασίαν ἢ λήδανον ἢ λιβανωτὸν ἀλλὰ δάφνην καὶ κρίθινον ἄλευρον. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 6 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. purple robe

  2. purple robe

Similar forms

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