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ἀμάρυγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμάρυγμα

Structure: ἀμαρυγματ (Stem)

Etym.: from a)maru/ssw

Sense

  1. a sparkle, twinkle, quivering

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

  • ἀντία δ’ αἰεὶ βάλλεν ὑπ’ Αἰσονίδην ἀμαρύγματα, καί οἱ ἀήντο στηθέων ἐκ πυκιναὶ καμάτῳ φρένεσ, οὐδέ τιν’ ἄλλην μνῆστιν ἔχεν, γλυκερῇ δὲ κατείβετο θυμὸν ἀνίῃ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 5:20)
  • εἶξον ἀρειοτέροισι, χάρισ Καπετωλίδοσ αὐλῆσ, εἰ καὶ χαλκείων ὀρόφων ἀμαρύγματα πέμπεισ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 656 2:1)
  • Πατέριον λιγύμυθον, ἐπήρατον, ἔλλαχε τύμβοσ, Μιλτιάδου φίλον υἱᾶ καὶ Ἀττικίησ βαρυτλήτου, Κεκροπίησ βλάστημα, κλυτὸν γένοσ Αἰακιδάων, ἔμπλεον Αὐσονίων θεσμῶν σοφίησ τ’ ἀναπάσησ, τῶν πισύρων ἀρετῶν ἀμαρύγματα πάντα φέροντα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3431)

Synonyms

  1. a sparkle

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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