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βάιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάιον

Structure: βαι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = ba/is, NTest.

Sense

  1. a palm-branch

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ νάρκην ἑφθὴν ἐν ἐλαίῳ ἠδὲ καὶ οἴνῳ καὶ χλόῃ εὐώδει καὶ βαιῷ ξύσματι τυροῦ, Ἄλεξισ ἐν Γαλατείᾳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 95 3:2)
  • ἀλλὰ χορεύει σὺν παισὶν βαιῷ μικρὸσ ἔτ’ ἐν θιάσῳ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 402)
  • πεντάδα τὴν σταφυλῆσ εὐρώγεα, καὶ μελιηδὲσ πρώιον εὐφύλλων σῦκον ἀπ’ ἀκρεμόνων, καὶ ταύτην ἀπέτηλον ἁλινήκτειραν ἐλαίην, καὶ ψαιστῶν ὀλίγον δρᾶγμα πενιχραλέων, καὶ σταγόνα σπονδῖτιν, ἀεὶ θυέεσσιν ὀπηδόν, τὴν κύλικοσ βαιῷ πυθμένι κευθομένην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1902)

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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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