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βάλανος

Second declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάλανος βαλάνου

Structure: βαλαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. acorn
  2. acorn-tree
  3. (by resemblance), barnacle
  4. glans membri virilis
  5. an iron peg, bolt-pin
  6. (medicine) suppository, pledget, pessary

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 ἐπὶ πᾶσαν κέδρον τοῦ Λιβάνου τῶν ὑψηλῶν καὶ μετεώρων καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶν δένδρον βαλάνου Βασὰν (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 2:13)
  • βαλάνου δὲ γευσάμενοι καὶ φαγόντεσ ἐχόρευσαν ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ περὶ δρῦν τινα καὶ φηγόν, ζείδωρον καὶ μητέρα καὶ τροφὸν ἀποκαλοῦντεσ· (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 2 8:3)
  • ἀλλὰ μήν, νὴ τοὺσ θεούσ, ἀπὸ βαλάνου τοῦτ’ ἐστί, Λάμια, βασιλικῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 39 2:3)
  • "ἐπεὶ τῶν γε μειζόνων φανερὰ πάντων ἡ ἀρχή, καθάπερ ἀμυγδάλησ, καρύου, βαλάνου, τῶν ἄλλων ὅσα τοιαῦτα πλὴν τοῦ Περσικοῦ, τούτου δ’ ἥκιστα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 243)
  • ἐπὶ τούτων διέβαινον καὶ ἐλάμβανον τὰ ἐπιτήδεια, οἶνόν τε ἐκ τῆσ βαλάνου πεποιημένον τῆσ ἀπὸ τοῦ φοίνικοσ καὶ σῖτον μελίνησ· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 10:4)

Synonyms

  1. acorn

  2. acorn-tree

  3. an iron peg

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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