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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)
  • χρώματα καὶ βάμματα μιγνύουσιν, ἔστι δὲ καὶ τῶν ἰατρικῶν φαρμάκων ἔνια τὴν ὄψιν ἀνθηρὰ καὶ τὴν χρόαν οὐκ ἀπάνθρωπον ἔχοντα. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 11 2:2)
  • βαφεῖ τὴν βαφικὴν ἐργάζεσθαι τέχνην οὐ μόνῳ αὐτῷ ἄμεινον ἢ μεθ̓ ἑτέρων ἀντιτέχνων, ἵνα ὁποιαοῦν ἀποδιδῶται τὰ βάμματα ταῖσ γυναιξίν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, speech 60 7:4)
  • χρώματα δὲ λευκὰ πρέποντ’ ἂν θεοῖσ εἰή καὶ ἄλλοθι καὶ ἐν ὑφῇ, βάμματα δὲ μὴ προσφέρειν ἀλλ’ ἢ πρὸσ τὰ πολέμου κοσμήματα. (Plato, Laws, book 12 107:2)

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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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