Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄμης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμης ἄμες

Structure: ἀμη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. milk-cake

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

  • πυραμοῦσ, ἄμησ, ᾠῶν ἑκατόμβη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 50 3:5)
  • χόνδροσ μετὰ ταῦτ’ εἰσῆλθε, μύρον Αἰγύπτιον, φοινικίνου βῖκόσ τισ ὑπανεῴγνυτο, ἴτρια, τραγήμαθ’ ἧκε, πυραμοῦσ, ἄμησ, ᾠῶν ἑκατόμβη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 502)
  • ἄμησ πλακοῦντοσ γένοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 52 2:11)
  • "ἄμησ, πλακοῦσ, ἔντιλτοσ, ἴτριον, ῥόα, ᾠόν, ἐρέβινθοσ, σησάμη, κοπτή, βότρυσ, ἰσχάσ, ἄπιοσ, πέρσεια, μῆλ’, ἀμύγδαλα ταῦτα μὲν ὁ Κλέαρχοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 609)
  • εἴπερ πεποιθὼσ τῇ δίκῃ βρέτασ τόδε ἧσαι φυλάσσων ἑστίασ ἁμῆσ πέλασ σεμνὸσ προσίκτωρ ἐν τρόποισ Ἰξίονοσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. milk-cake

Related

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

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