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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

  • οὐχ εὑρήσουσιν αὐτὸν διαμερίζοντα σκῦλα̣ οἰκτίρμων οἰκτειρήσει εἰσ κεφαλὴν ἀνδρόσ. σκῦλα βαμμάτων τῷ Σισάρᾳ, σκῦλα βαμμάτων ποικιλίασ, βάμματα ποικιλτῶν αὐτά, τῷ τραχήλῳ αὐτοῦ σκῦλα. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 5:30)
  • ἄγε δὴ σὺ φράσον ἐμοὶ σαφῶσ πρὸσ τουτονί, ἵνα μή σε βάψω βάμμα Σαρδιανικόν· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 4:16)
  • μᾶλλον ἢ θεοῖσιν ἐχθρὸν ταξίαρχον προσβλέπων τρεῖσ λόφουσ ἔχοντα καὶ φοινικίδ’ ὀξεῖαν πάνυ, ἣν ἐκεῖνόσ φησιν εἶναι βάμμα Σαρδιανικόν· (Aristophanes, Peace, Parabasis, antepirrheme1)
  • ἢν δέ που δέῃ μάχεσθ’ ἔχοντα τὴν φοινικίδα, τηνικαῦτ’ αὐτὸσ βέβαπται βάμμα Κυζικηνικόν· (Aristophanes, Peace, Parabasis, antepirrheme2)

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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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