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βάμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάμμα

Structure: βαμματ (Stem)

Etym.: ba/ptw

Sense

  1. that in which a thing is dipped, dye

Declension

Third 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

  • φησὶν ὅτι παροιμία ἐστὶν καὶ λέγει, ὡσ μέν τινεσ, ἀπὸ τοῦ βάμματοσ οὗ γὰρ ἂν προσψαύσῃ ἕλκει ἐφ’ ἑαυτὸ καὶ τοῖσ προσπαρατεθειμένοισ ἐμποιεῖ χρώματοσ αὐγὴν ἄλλοι δ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ ζῴου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 371)

Related

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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