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ἀμυχή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμυχή

Structure: ἀμυχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)mu/ssw

Sense

  1. a scratch, skin-wound

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

  • ^ ἐδείκνυ δὲ καὶ σημεῖα τῶν πληγῶν καὶ ἀμυχάσ τινασ ἐπὶ τοῦ προσώπου. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 20:7)
  • κληθῆναι δὲ ἀμυγδάλην φησὶν Ἡρωδιανὸσ ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεὺσ παρὰ τὸ ἐν τῷ μετὰ τὸ χλωρὸν ὡσπερεὶ ἀμυχὰσ ἔχειν πολλάσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 39 3:1)
  • εἶθ’ ἡδυλογοῦσιν ἅπασιν ἀεὶ κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν περιόντεσ, ἐπὶ τοῖσ δὲ βάθροισ ὅταν ὦσιν, ἐκεῖ τούτοισ οἷσ ἡδυλογοῦσι μεγάλασ ἀμυχὰσ καταμύξαντεσ καὶ συγκρούσαντεσ ἅπαντεσ γελῶσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 59 1:2)
  • ἄλλουσ δέ τινασ ἀμβλείασ ἀμυχὰσ ἔχοντασ. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 25:1)
  • ἀμυχὰσ δὲ κοπτομένων καὶ τὸ θρηνεῖν πεποιημένα καὶ τὸ κωκύειν ἄλλον ἐν ταφαῖσ ἑτέρων ἀφεῖλεν. (Plutarch, , chapter 21 4:3)

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

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