Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμη

Structure: ἀμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a shovel or mattock

Declension

First 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

  • 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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