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βύρσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βύρσα βύρσης

Structure: βυρς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the skin stripped off a hide
  2. the skin of a live animal

Declension

First 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 ὁ Σκιπίων εὐθὺσ ἐπὶ τοῖσδε προσέβαλεν Ἰτύκῃ κατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλασσαν, δύο μὲν πεντήρεσιν ἐζευγμέναισ πύργον ἐπιθείσ, ὅθεν τριπήχη βέλη καὶ λίθουσ μεγάλουσ ἐσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἠφίει, καὶ πολλὰ μὲν ἐλύπει πολλὰ δ’ ἀντέπασχε θραυομένων τῶν νεῶν, χώματα δ’ ἐπαίρων μέγιστα, καὶ κριοῖσ τὸ τεῖχοσ, ὅτε προσπελάσειε, τύπτων, δρεπάνοισ τε περισπῶν ὅσαι βύρσαι περὶ αὐτὸ καὶ ἄλλα σκεπαστήρια ἦν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. the skin stripped off a hide

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