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ἀράχνιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀράχνιον

Structure: ἀραχνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: a)ra/xnhs

Sense

  1. a spider's web

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀράχνιον ἀραχνίω ἀράχνια
Genitive ἀραχνίου ἀραχνίοιν ἀραχνίων
Dative ἀραχνίῳ ἀραχνίοιν ἀραχνίοις
Accusative ἀράχνιον ἀραχνίω ἀράχνια
Vocative ἀράχνιον ἀραχνίω ἀράχνια

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

  • τέκμαρ δὲ ἐφελκὶσ, ἢ ὑμένιον, εὖτε ἀράχνιον, ἐρυθρὸν ἐκκριθὲν, ἢ πῦον λευκὸν οὐρηθὲν, ἄλλοτε μὲν καθαρὸν, ἀμιγὲσ, ἄλλοτε δὲ οὔροισι ξυμμεμιγμένον· τοῖσδε χρὴ καὶ ἀποστάσιασ διαγιγνώσκειν, ἢν προσγένωνται πυρετοὶ ἐσ ἑσπέρην καὶ Ῥίγεα· πόνοι ἀμφὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν, κνησμοί · ἢν δὲ καὶ ἐκραγῇ, θρόμβοι πυώδεεσ, σαρκοειδέεσ, ἀτὰρ ἠδὲ λευκοῦ πύου ἀπόστασισ· τὰ δὲ ἕλκεα, δακνώδεα, ἄλλοτε μὲν καθαιρόμενα, ἄλλοτε δὲ Ῥυπαρὰὄντα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 103)
  • ὧν ὁ μὲν εἷσ,Ἕρμων, μεγάλην ἐνεδείξατο τέχνην, καὶ διέδυ ῥαφίδοσ τρῆμα, λίνον κατέχων Δημᾶσ δ’ ἐκ τρώγλησ βαίνων ἐσ ἀράχνιον ἔστη, ἡ δ’ ἀράχνη νήθουσ1’ αὐτὸν ἀπεκρέμασεν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1102)
  • σὺ οὖν ἄνθρωποσ ὢν οὐδὲ ζῷον εἶναι θέλεισ τῶν ἀνθρώποισ συντρόφων, ἀλλὰ σκώληξ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀράχνιον; (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 32:1)

Synonyms

  1. a spider's web

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

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