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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

  • ἀπέθανε δὲ Δεβῶρα ἡ τροφὸσ Ρεβέκκασ καὶ ἐτάφη κατώτερον Βαιθὴλ ὑπὸ τὴν βάλανον, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἰακὼβ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτῆσ Βάλανοσ πένθουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 35:8)
  • σὺ δ’ ἢν σχολάσῃσ, πάσῃ τέχνῃ πρὸσ ἑσπέραν ἐλθὼν ἐκείνῃ τὴν βάλανον ἐνάρμοσον. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Episode13)
  • καὶ τῆσ κατακλῇδοσ ἐπιμελοῦ, καὶ τοῦ μοχλοῦ φύλατθ’ ὅπωσ μὴ τὴν βάλανον ἐκτρώξεται. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 4:25)
  • ὤθει σὺ πολλοὺσ τῶν λίθων πρὸσ τὴν θύραν, καὶ τὴν βάλανον ἔμβαλλε πάλιν ἐσ τὸν μοχλόν, καὶ τῇ δοκῷ προσθεὶσ τὸν ὅλμον τὸν μέγαν ἀνύσασ τι προσκύλισον. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 5:23)
  • κα# ὗσ τὰν βάλανον τὰν μὲν ἔχει, τὰν δ’ ἔραται λαβεῖν κἀγὼ παῖδα καλὴν τὴν μὲν ἔχω,1 τὴν δ’ ἔραμαι λαβεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 7:5)

Synonyms

  1. acorn

  2. acorn-tree

  3. an iron peg

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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