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ἀχάνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀχάνη

Structure: ἀχαν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Persian measure

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

  • οὔκ, ἀλλ’ ἀχάνασ ὅδε γε χρυσίου λέγει. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 4:11)
  • ποίασ ἀχάνασ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 4:12)
  • τὰσ δὲ κλίμακασ διαλυτὰσ οὔσασ ἐμβαλόντεσ εἰσ ἀχάνασ καὶ κατακαλύψαντεσ ἐφ’ ἁμαξῶν προαπέστειλαν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 6 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a Persian measure

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

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