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ἀμέθυστος

Second declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμέθυστος ἀμεθύστου

Structure: ἀμεθυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. (substantive) remedy for drunkenness
  2. (botany) some sort of herb
  3. (geology) amethyst

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

  • ἐν τῇ τρυφῇ τοῦ παραδείσου τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐγενήθησ. πάντα λίθον χρηστὸν ἐνδέδεσαι, σάρδιον καὶ τοπάζιον καὶ σμάραγδον καὶ ἄνθρακα καὶ σάπφειρον καὶ ἴασπιν καὶ ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον καὶ λιγύριον καί ἀχάτην καὶ ἀμέθυστον καὶ χρυσόλιθον καὶ βηρύλλιον καὶ ὀνύχιον, καὶ χρυσίου ἐνέπλησασ τοὺσ θησαυρούσ σου καὶ τὰσ ἀποθήκασ σου ἐν σοὶ (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 28:13)
  • "οἱ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἀμέθυστον οἰόμενοι τῷ πρὸσ τὰσ οἰνώσεισ βοηθεῖν αὐτήν τε καὶ τὴν ἐπώνυμον αὐτῆσ λίθον οὕτω κεκλῆσθαι διαμαρτάνουσι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 10:13)

Synonyms

  1. remedy for drunkenness

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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