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ἄλυσσον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλυσσον

Structure: ἀλυσς (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. name of a certain plant used for curing madness; according to LSJ, specifically madwort (Farsetia clypeata → Fibigia clypeata) and Galen's madwort (Sideritis romana)

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἄλυσσον ἀλύσσω ά̓λυσσα
Genitive ἀλύσσου ἀλύσσοιν ἀλύσσων
Dative ἀλύσσῳ ἀλύσσοιν ἀλύσσοις
Accusative ἄλυσσον ἀλύσσω ά̓λυσσα
Vocative ά̓λυσσον ἀλύσσω ά̓λυσσα

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

  • τὴν δ’ ἄλυσσον καλουμένην βοτάνην καὶ λαβόντεσ εἰσ τὴν χεῖρα μόνον, οἱ δὲ καὶ προσβλέψαντεσ, ἀπαλλάττονται λυγμοῦ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 10:31)
  • καὶ Ἄλυσσον τοῦδε ἕνεκα ὀνομάζουσι τὴν πηγήν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 5:2)

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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