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ἀργυροθήκη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀργυροθήκη

Structure: ἀργυροθηκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a money-chest

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀργυροθήκη ἀργυροθήκᾱ ἀργυροθῆκαι
Genitive ἀργυροθήκης ἀργυροθήκαιν ἀργυροθηκῶν
Dative ἀργυροθήκῃ ἀργυροθήκαιν ἀργυροθήκαις
Accusative ἀργυροθήκην ἀργυροθήκᾱ ἀργυροθήκᾱς
Vocative ἀργυροθήκη ἀργυροθήκᾱ ἀργυροθῆκαι

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

  • Καὶ τὸ ὅλον δὲ τῶν μικρολόγων καὶ τὰσ ἀργυροθήκασ ἔστιν ἰδεῖν εὐρωτιώσασ καὶ τὰσ κλεῖσ ἰωμένασ, καὶ αὐτοὺσ δὲ φοροῦντασ ἐλάττω τῶν μικρῶν τὰ ἱμάτια, καὶ ἐκ ληκυθίων μικρῶν πάνυ ἀλειφομένουσ, καὶ ἐν χρῷ κειρομένουσ, καὶ τὸ μέσον τῆσ ἡμέρασ ὑποδουμένουσ, καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ γναφεῖσ διατεινομένουσ, ὅπωσ τὸ ἱμάτιον αὐτοῖσ ἕξει πολλὴν γῆν, ἵνα μὴ ῥυπαίνηται ταχύ. (Theophrastus, Characters, 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. a money-chest

Similar forms

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

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