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ἀθήρ?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: athēr

Principal Part: ἀθήρ ἀθέρος

Structure: ἀθηρ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an ear of corn
  2. husks, chaff
  3. barb of weapon

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

  • τοῦ ἄρρενος ταύτην φησὶ διαφέρειν ὁ Ἀριστοτέλης τῷ ἔχειν ὑπὸ τῇ γαστρὶ πτερύγιον, ὃ καλεῖσθαι ἀθέρα ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ ζῴων μορίων διιστὰς αὐτὴν τοῦ θύννου φησιν τοῦ θέρους τίκτειν περὶ τὸν Ἑκατομβαιῶνα θυλακοειδές, ἐν ᾧ πολλὰ γίνεσθαι μικρὰ ᾠά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 672)
  • ἐν καλάμῳ πήξας ἀθέρα Στρατόνικος ὁ λεπτός, καὶ τριχὸς ἐκδήσας, αὑτὸν ἀπηγχόνισεν καὶ τί γάρ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 911)

Synonyms

  1. an ear of corn

  2. husks

  3. barb of weapon

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

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