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ἀπόκνισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόκνισμα

Structure: ἀποκνισματ (Stem)

Etym.: from a)pokni/zw

Sense

  1. that which is nipt off, a little bit

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

  • ἢν δέ σε Καρκίνοσ ἐλθὼν ἀντιβολῇ μετὰ τῶν παίδων χορεῦσαι, μήθ’ ὑπάκουε μήτ’ ἔλθῃσ συνέριθοσ αὐτοῖσ, ἀλλὰ νόμιζε πάντασ ὄρτυγασ οἰκογενεῖσ γυλιαύχενασ ὀρχηστὰσ ναννοφυεῖσ σφυράδων ἀποκνίσματα μηχανοδίφασ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Parabasis, strophe 13)

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

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