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ἄμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμη

Structure: ἀμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a shovel or mattock

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἄμη ά̓μᾱ ά̓μαι
Genitive ά̓μης ά̓μαιν ἀμῶν
Dative ά̓μῃ ά̓μαιν ά̓μαις
Accusative ά̓μην ά̓μᾱ ά̓μᾱς
Vocative ά̓μη ά̓μᾱ ά̓μαι

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

  • ἀλλὰ ταῖσ ἄμαισ εἰσιόντεσ ὡσ τάχιστα τοὺσ λίθουσ ἀφέλκετε. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, trochees2)
  • οἱ χῆνεσ ὑποτύπτοντεσ ὥσπερ ταῖσ ἄμαισ ἐσ τὰσ λεκάνασ ἐνέβαλλον αὐτοῖσ τοῖν ποδοῖν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene23)

Synonyms

  1. a shovel or mattock

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

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